Although it was later found out that what was demolished was a fence and foundation of an incomplete building suspected to be a potential mosque. Two months after, his government was alleged to have demolished a mosque. According to some newspaper sources, it was the second time the governor would make the declaration without a care in the world for its consequence. Mr Nyesom Wike earlier in June this year called Rivers a Christian state. A dangerous antecedent had been set.Įxactly ten years later, a Southern governor probably high on anointing oil also declared his state a Christian state. Kano is a Muslim state and shall be governed by Sharia laws. The recklessness with which Hisbah enforced Sharia law on Kano residents that are not even Muslims gave rise to many petitions during this period. The structure known as Hisbah was a fulfillment of the campaign promise of effecting Sharia law by the then Governor of Kano state, Mallam Ibrahim Shekarau. It was a brazen case of the law can go fuck itself.
But this eager to impress structure erected by the state government was dissatisfied with the judgement and went ahead to rearrest the truck, confiscate and destroy the drinks it was transporting.
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However the magistrate court freed the truck as there was no basis for convicting a driver in transit plying a federal road without contraband.
After thorough investigation by the Nigerian Police the truck was charged to court. A truck carrying drinks worth millions of naira to Maiduguri was intercepted by a structure erected by the state government. Sometimes in 2009, the unimaginable happened in Kano, the most populous state in Nigeria. Let me take a you a little down memory lane. It had been effected in some northern states as far back as 2003! I didn’t know Sharia was more than an Islamic word. I wasn’t much of a drinker but nevertheless it was unimaginable to suppose I’d spend a year far from everything I was familiar with without the occasional comfort of my beloved Guinness stout. One of the shocking revelations that confronted me when I got posted to Zamfara for my National Youth Service year in 2016 was the realization that alcoholic drinks were not sold in Zamfara. Sometimes when you sit in a spot, you’d never know what is happening in other places no matter how much news you watch or books you read.
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