“Without Government Support, I Would Not Have Gotten Married” – Kano Groom Speaks After Mass Wedding

• Grooms who took part in Kano State’s mass wedding involving 1,500 couples have highlighted the importance of government assistance, with one saying he would not have been able to marry without the support.
• The initiative has, however, sparked debate online over unemployment, poverty, population growth and whether government support should extend beyond the wedding to helping the couples build sustainable families.

Several grooms who participated in Kano State’s mass wedding involving 1,500 couples have spoken about their newlywed wives and the impact of the government’s support, with one groom saying he may not have been able to marry without the assistance.

One of the grooms said: “If it were not for the help of the government, I would not have gotten married.”

The mass wedding has generated reactions online, with social media users debating the government’s decision to support the couples amid economic hardship and concerns about employment and family welfare.

Some users questioned whether the government would also provide continued support for the newly married couples, particularly unemployed men.

@DejiAdedeji3: “Hope their feeding allowance is also provided to the jobless men,who got married religiously.”

@Sky_B055: “If the government didn’t took away there future they would have done it by themselves”

Other reactions focused on the potential impact of the mass wedding on population growth and the ability of the couples to provide for their future children.

@GloriaNwan42448: “They know what they are doing get them married so they can give birth to more almarajis to vote for them”

@withoutduecbmq: “Imagine, this is the inclusion of government projects… Thereafter, they will bring children they can’t take care of to the world.God have mercy.”

Some users argued that creating jobs and improving economic opportunities should have been prioritised to enable young men to independently establish families.

@stairz_of: “The north is dragging us back to poverty, create a job for those 1500 men and they will comfortably marry and take care of their family”

There were also questions about the age of some of the participants.

@charles_cl85932: “is 17 years legal to marry in nigeria”

Another user, @ChatHillary, wrote: “Giant of Africa doing mass wedding for grandpa”

@Cgneeiunivas also commented: “And Nigeria had the highest population of birth rate last year even after the whole hard ship, and still want to add more una weldone oo”