Minors arrested in Bauchi over illegal marriage ceremony, N3,000 bride price

Authorities successful Bauchi State person apprehended a radical of minors for allegedly conducting an amerciable matrimony ceremonial involving a bride terms of N3,000.

The suspects, including the purported bride and groom, were on Thursday presented earlier the Bauchi State Action Committee connected Sexual and Gender-Based Violence, chaired by the woman of the governor, Aisha Bala Mohammed.

The arrests were carried retired by operatives of the Bauchi State Vigilante and Youth Empowerment Agency successful collaboration with the Bauchi State Police Command.

Also arrested were individuals said to person attended the ceremony, an alleged imam who conducted the marriage, and an underage miss accused of acting arsenic the bride’s mother.

Speaking of the incident, the commandant of Hisbah successful the state, Mohammed Mohammed Bununu, described the matrimony statement arsenic illegal, noting that the bride’s begetter denied cognition of the event.

He stated that the authorities would not condone specified practices and urged parents and guardians to uphold motivation and spiritual values.

In her remarks, Aisha Bala Mohammed blamed the improvement connected poverty, parental negligence and declining motivation standards successful society.

She called connected parents to wage person attraction to the upbringing of their children ...