Hisbah Invades Nigerian University Hostels, Arrest Male, Female Students Found In Same Room

The operation by the state Kano Hisbah To Fine Male And Female Varsity Students Found In Same Room N20, 000 Each.

Hisbah officials broke into the students’ rooms and took them to their office. body sparked off tension in the neighborhood as other students kept vigil all through the night out of fear of the unknown.

The agency established to enforce Sharia law in some states in the region recently banned stylish haircuts, sagging of trousers, playing of music at social events by disk jockeys and tricycle riders from adorning their vehicles with pictures considered to be obscene and against the tenents of Islam.

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This was in addition to other unusual directives reeled out by the Islamic police.

Hisbah recently made headlines for shaving stylish haircuts of young men in Kano and arresting people for improper dressing.

They are also notorious for destroying truckloads of alcoholic drinks.