PROPERTY TORCHED, SCORES INJURED AS LOCALS CLASH WITH HISBAH OFFICIALS IN KANO
An unspecified number of persons sustained various levels of physical injuries while a couple of vehicles and property were torched when violence broke out between operatives of the Hisbah Board and some irate youths in Kano, on Tuesday night.
Eons intelligence gathered that the civil disturbance started when some Hisbah officials stormed the popular Ballat Hughes Area, by Court Road in Fagge Local Government Area of the State, in a bid to confiscate alcoholic beverages at a joint allegedly run by an unnamed female operator.
Hisbah board is the "Islamic Police" responsible for enforcing Sharia law, which bans the sales, distribution and consumption of alcoholic beverages in Kano State.
However, the officials were said to have been challenged and resisted by the mostly non-indigenes in the area, who accused the officials of being overzealous and high-handed.
The angry mob consequently engaged in a free for all with the officials and set bonfires and barricades around the area.
Eye witnesses' accounts said other hoodlums and opportunists soon hijacked the process by looting and snatching people's personal devices.
The Sabon Gari Area is historically notorious for being the hot bed of ethnic and religious violence in Kano State. It is largely populated by Southerners.
The Kano State Police Command was yet to release an official statement at the time of filing this report.
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