30 April, 2016

From Desmond Mgboh /Kano
Kano State Hisbah Guards, Thursday in Kano, arrested no fewer than 10 people following
a night operation that was launched at a hotel in the metropolitan area of the state.
The 10 arrested people were guests of Heidon Hotel, a popular hotel located
at No. 24 Zungeru road, Sabon – Garri, Kano State.

A manager of the hotel, (name
withheld) told Saturday Sun that the
Hisbah operatives scooped at them, loaded in four vehicles, adding that they broke into the room of guests and took them to their office.
He alleged that some of the arrested
lodgers were innocent visitors who
were unfortunately taken custody for no offence but the fact that they were in the hotel.

He alleged that the Hisbah Guards
confiscated an unspecified number of cartoons of beer, a laptop
belonging to the hotel’s director, four handsets and a car belonging to a guest.
Witnesses alleged that the operation
by the state religious body sparked off tension in the neighborhood
as members of the community kept
vigil all through the night out of fear of the unknown.
President of the Hoteliers Association of Nigeria, Kano State Chapter, Chief Augustine Ibezimako
told Saturday Sun that the incident
had reported to the Nigeria Police
Division in Sabon – Garri area of the
state.
He lamented that his members were
being denied rights in a democracy,
alleging that hoteliers in Kano State have lost several millions of naira following unprovoked attacks, confiscation and destruction of their property.

He appealed to the Nigeria Police in
the state to assist in checking the
excesses of the Hisbah Guards,
adding that the situation was
gradually becoming unbearable to
their members.
It could be recalled that the Hotel
Association of Nigeria, Kano State had on 18th of April , 2016, written a
petition to the Assistant Inspector
General of Police, Zone 1, Kano State, lodging a complaint against the activities of Hisbah Guards.


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So if you go to Kano for a conference or meeting and decide to lodge in a hotel, the Hisbah police will swoop on you and arrest you because you a kaffir. But an hausa or fulani man can come to lagos, Onitsha or owerri and lodge in a hotel without being harrased.

Now tell me you 'One nigerianists' from the south (non-muslims) how do you still argue for one nigeria without sounding daft and idiotic?

These fulani people can not tolerate 1/100th of the nonsense they dish out to southerners in their lands.

lalasticlala, mynd44, Seun southerners were arrested for lodging in hotel rooms by hisbah Islamic police of Kano.

They seized and destroyed crates of beer but Kano still collects taxes and VATs accruable from Breweries in Nigeria. Isn't it hypocritical.

We claim to be a secular country, yet a particular region is allowed to operate Sharia law.
Instead of tackling poverty, illiteracy, child marriage, and other social issues rampant in the North,
Their pathetic leaders are more concerned with stopping alcohol consumption and arresting prostitutes.

It's worthy of note that these Hisbah guards' salaries are partly paid from VAT on 'beer'.