Commotion as Kano Hisbah Declares War on Prostitutes and Drug Addicts

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Commotion as Kano Hisbah Declares War on Prostitutes and Drug Addicts

The Kano State Hisbah Corps has arrested 120 suspected prostitutes and drugs addicts at a recreation centre located about 21 kilometres outside Kano city, the News Agency of Nigeria reports.

The Corps said it made the arrests during a night raid on the Hills and Valleys Recreational Centre in a joint operation with the state office of the Nigerian Drugs Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, after receiving series of complaints from residents of Dawakin Kudu Local Government Area of the state.

The Director-General of the Hisbah Corps, Abba Sufi, told journalists that out of the 120 girls and boys arrested, 20 are believed to be between 13 and14 years old.

Mr. Sufi said 19 of those arrested were notorious persons who the command had arrested several times in the past and taken to court.


He said they would be prosecuted under the state’s Prostitution and other Immoral Acts Prohibition Law enacted in 2001.

Mr. Sufi said some of the girls arrested were at the venue for a wedding ceremony and that the command has handed them over to their parents.

“We have 37 boys and 79 girls who are mostly under-aged and we have invited their parents to caution them against allowing these under-aged ones to engage in social vices”.

Abba Sufi said the corps had also identified some other black spots where illicit drugs were being taken mostly by young girls and boys, warning that the command would soon swoop on them.

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