Kano police stop mass wedding events, block distribution of materials to Kwankwasiyya brides and grooms
Police vehicles
allegedly blocked the access road to Lugard house where the distribution of
materials to the brides and grooms of the Kwankwasiyya Mass Wedding was
supposed to take place last Sunday, August 21th, Red Cap Movement reports.
According to Daily
Trust, police authorities had on August 18, stopped mass wedding events
separately organized by the state government and former governor Rabiu Musa
Kwankwaso. A statement by police spokesman, DSP Magaji Musa Majia, read:
"The Kano State Police Command, in conjunction with other Security Agencies in the state, wishes to inform the general public that the planned events earlier announced to hold on Saturday at Sani Abacha Indoor Stadium Kofar Mata and Polo Ground along Club Road Kano respectively have been banned indefinitely."
Kwankwaso had planned to
marry off 100 divorcees through his Kwankwasiyya foundation and the event was
scheduled to take place on Saturday at Polo Ground, while the
Governor Umar Abdullahi Ganduje administration was also to conduct another mass
wedding at Sani Abacha Indoor Stadium same day.
The police said security intelligence available to it revealed that some disgruntled elements, were preparing to use the occasions to perpetuate havoc in the State.
However, a political
associate of Kwankwaso, Alhaji Aminu Abdulsalam, faulted the decision of the
police, saying "we are going to hold our event on Sunday unfailingly.
Preparations have reached advance stage in that respect. So we are committed to
this event and God willing it will hold on Sunday."
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