Islamic police smashed 80,000 bottles of beer in the Nigerian city of Kano on Tuesday to enforce a sharia law ban on consumption of alcohol that exists in much of the country’s north.
Over a dozen veiled female sharia police, called Hisbah, destroyed the beer bottles with sticks amid shouts of “Allahu Akbar†(God is Great) on the outskirts of the northern city in a ceremony.
The ceremony was attended by government officials as part of “efforts to rid the state of immorality,†said Kano state Hisbah chief Saidu Dukawa. Kano city is the capital of the state by the same name.
“The sale and consumption of alcohol, like all forms of drugs and intoxicants, is illegal in Kano state, which practices sharia law and by this event we are enforcing that ban,†Dukawa told AFP.
Thirteen trucks brought the bottles of beer to the venue.
The alcohol had been seized at the weekend by sharia police as the bottles were being delivered to the city from the mainly Christian south, where most of the country’s breweries are located, Dukawa said.
Although the sale and consumption of alcohol is banned in Kano state, beer trucks find their way to taverns in the predominantly Christian Sabongari neighbourhood, which is practically exempt from sharia law.
Since 1999, when Nigeria returned to civilian rule after years of military dictatorship, around a dozen states in the predominantly Muslim north have reintroduced Islamic sharia law, though it has been selectively applied in many cases.
Nigeria is Africa’s most populous nation, and roughly half of the 150 million population is Muslim.
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the will distroy botles and go drink in other state .
hello
all Nigerians and mostly BIAFARA please,if the northerners have decide to use their own law,in Nigeria,they have just call for the divide of Nigeria,so please let it be an opportunity for the easterners to go out of this curs country called Nigeria and become a country of their own by declaring of Biafara as a country of it own,is really getting too much for all this ABUKIS with this their law and trouble all over Nigeria,how can they force useless law to people who is not a Muslim,i say fulk them 1000000000000000000000 times all with this their law,late the biafara be free from Nigeria so that you will enjoy this useless law called sharia for God sake.let Republic of Biafara go
long live the great Igbos and long live[ federal republic of Biafara ]God bless republic of Biafara
pls my people of nigeria if the northerners can have thier own law and make use of it in thesame nation called nigeria. i will surgest that every state to esterblish thier own cos law of nigeria is working .thanks
Since when did Nigeria have foreign police detectives, take a look at the picture PM news. Also the population of muslims in Nigeria is 30% and not 40 or 45. I stand by my figures.
Whatever happen to those muslims leaders who indulges in alcohol consumption, cut their hands off, nonesense. Will destroying 80,000 bottles of beer solve the killings of christians in the north? I don’t think so.
this sharia governor from kano who want to rule nigeria throught ANPP party, i wonder what he has in mind not knowing that nigeria of today is not the one of yesteryears when idiot can come from north and rule the country. enough of that sharia in kano.the southern do not want to see ur urgly face
Mallam Shekarau and his men are looking for a fresh riot .
why not fight for illegal drugs and textiles rought through the country.
MANIPULATION OF FIGURES IN NIGERIA SINCE – 41YEAR A GO ! LET IT STOP !
NO NIGERIA IS NOT A MUSLIM NATION! WRONG FIGURE ALWAYS REPRESENTED!- THE FALSE FIGURE -45% MUSLIMS – CHRISTIANS ARE 45%, ´MUSLIMS ARE 40 % and NATURAL RELIGIONIS ARE 8 % IN THE INTERNATIONAL YEAR- BOOK THIS WRONG FIGURE- THAT MUSLIM ARE MORE THAN CHRISTIANS IN NIGERIA IS A NACKED LIE !!! THE MUSLIM (HAUSAS) PRESIDENTS DOMINATED LEADERSHIP FOR OVER 38 YEARS HAVE BEEN PUTTING THIS WRONG FIGURE- CONFUSING EVERY NATION ON THIS MATTER! NEVERTHELESS- MUSLIM- CHRISTIANS- LIVE AND LET LIVE- IN NAME OF ALLAH- GOD- SO MUSLIMS GIVE PEACE FOREVER A CHANCE IN NORTH- STOP KILLING AND TERRORISING YOURSELF AND EVERYBODY- IN JOS- KADUNA- KANO- KATSINA- MAIDUGURI ; SOKOTO -ETC- SHAAAME TO MUSLIM WORLD ! DO SOMETHING IMMEDIATELY ABOUT IT !
WORLD- ISLAMIC- IMAM THEOLOGIANS WHAT DO YOU SAY OR TELL DAILY YOUR MUSLIMS BRETHEN GLOBALLY- WOLD WIDE ?-
WHEN WILL THIS NONSENSE ( TERROR) FROM MUSLIMS ANY WHERE STOP? JUST AS IT IS IMPOSSIBLE TO CHRISTENALISE THE WHOLE WORLD – IT IS ALSO IMPOSSIBLE EVEN WITH JIHAD- WAR AND ITS UNJUST STUPID CONFUSIONS TO ISLAMISE THE WHOLE WORLD !
WE ARE ALL CHILDREN OF ONE TRUE GOD IN HEAVEN ! AMEN
IN KORAN>> ISLAM- MEANS – PEACE; TRULY???
hahahahaahahahahaah……incompetent journalists, every aspect of Nigeria is decaying, how could a reasonable human put up this arab police pictures here and tell us about an ordeal in kano state, this people are great jokers of all time. if at press time no picture is available to broadcast a news, simply let it be…
I know that what was done in Kano in the name of Islam is illegal. It cannot stand legal challenge. Enforcement of laws against moralty have always been difficult. Moralty is best enforced by the conscience of individuals and not by the state. I know that Sharia Law has a limited application in Nigeria, because Nigeria does not support and can not be seen to have a religion. Certianly, the destruction of so much bottles of beer must have caused a near destruction of the livelihood of some people and their businesses. It must have caused some people; drivers, loaders to lose their jobs. It will certainly cause the price of beer to rise tremendously in Kano State, as less is bound to be in the market place, due to hoarding upon fear of the sharia police. Certainly, consumers of beer will now suffer as the government action will cause more people to want to drink beer at a higher price.
I expect the Federal Government of Nigeria to act swiftly by bringing a lawsuit against Kano State government and its sharia Police, to prevent disruption of inter-sate commerce. Nigeria is a secular state and I am confident that the Federal Government will prevail in Court, simply, because the action of the Kano State Government and its agent is repugnant to natural jutice, equity and good conscience.
pm news always stand for truth and credibility, whoever put that foreign picture has put pm news credibility on line. it seems that picture was imported from Pakistan. please give us your readers unbiased news and not junk news.
PM NEWS, Must you pictures? those pictures are foreigners, dont tell me that Sharia Police in Saudi has been deployed to Nigeria for the excercise.
Please write story without pictures if the case be.
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