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  • Tension Mounts in Kano as Govt Enforces Sharia

    02/03/2008 2:27:52 AM PST · by forkinsocket · 20 replies · 4,704+ views
    This Day Online ^ | 02.02.2008 | Ibrahim Shuaibu
    Tension was rife in Kano following moves by the state’s sharia police against brothel, hotels and cafes situated in non-Muslim sections of the Sabon Gari area of the metropolis. The sharia police numbering about two hundred were seen at night patrolling in seven open vehicles that carried dangerous weapons including bows, arrows, sticks and cutlass. They attacked a civil service club at Magajin Rumfa Road, and all the hotels that are located in Sabon Gari, an area where most of its inhabitants are Christians. The Sharia Police, otherwise called, Hisbah Police, earlier turned down summons by the Kano State Police...