No fewer than 20 out of the 125 mass marriages contracted and sponsored by the Sokoto State government in January, 2014, had collapsed, an official has disclosed.
Alhaji Aliyu Kofar-Rini, the Chairman of the state's Sunnah Marriage Mediation Council, the organiser of the marriage, disclosed this in Sokoto on Saturday while commenting on the current state of the marriages.
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