The Kano Hisbah Board, also known as the Islamic police has explained why the rich and the poor are treated differently in enforcing some of its rules.
Featured on a Freedom Radio programme, a director of the Islamic police, Aliyu Kibiya says, “It is against the tenets of Islam to mount the podium and call out leaders. There are ways to caution a leader without criticising him in public.”
He said, “Although we call on everybody in the society to do the right thing, we make the call on a case by case basis.
Following the marriage of President Muhammadu Buhari’s only son to the daughter of the Emir of Bichi, Hisbah had being pressured by the public to act on the violation of sharia laws.
In the marriage ceremony, videos of some of the guest spotting Afro, Mohawk, or any of the hairstyles Kano State Hisbah has labelled as “unIslamic” and an insult to Islam.
Also, secular songs Hisbah has vehemently frowned upon were played at the party, with young northern men and women dancing to them.
All these have attracted punishments from Kano Hisbah, in cases where poor Nigerians were involved.
Meanwhile, the Islamic police have since banned stylish haircuts, sagging of trousers, and playing of music at social events by disk jockeys.
Hisbah also banned commercial motorcycles and tricycle riders from carrying two women at a time.
Recently, the Kano State Hisbah Board banned the use of mannequins to display clothes by tailors, supermarkets, and boutique owners in the state, stating that it contravenes the provision of Islamic injunctions.
