Jigawa Hisbah Reconciles 3,136 Couples In 2019
The implementation of Islamic Sharia Law across the twelve northern states of Nigeria, centres upon Kano, the largest Muslim Husa city, under the feudal, political and economic rule of the Emir of Kano. Islamic Sharia Law is enforced by official state apparatus including military and police, Islamic schools and education, plus various volunteer Militia groups supported financially and politically by the Emir and other business and political bodies. Fanatical Islamic Sharia religious traditions are enforced by the Hispah Sharia police. Deliquancy is controlled by the Vigilantes volunteer Militia. Activities such as Animist Pagan Voodoo ceremonies, playing music, drinking and gambling, normally outlawed under Sharia law exist as many parts of the rural and urban areas are controlled by local Mafia, ghetto gangs and rural hunters. The fight for control is never ending between the Emir, government forces, the Mafia and independent militias and gangs. This is fueled by rising petrol costs, and that 70% of the population live below the poverty line. Kano, Kano State, Northern Nigeria, Africa
The Jigawa Hisbah Commission says it
reconciled three-thousand-one-hundred-and-thirty-six couples in 2019 who had
disagreements, thereby saving their marriages.
The State’s Hisbah Commandant,
Ibrahim Dahiru, stated this while speaking with newsmen in Dutse.
Dahiru said the reconciliation was
part of eleven-thousand-five-hundred-and-twenty activities conducted by the
Commission in 2019.
He added that the Commission also
reconciled seven-hundred-and-eleven parents with their children during the
period.
Dahiru said other activities
conducted by the Commission included preaching, conversion of people to Islam,
patrols, repatriation and providing support to the needy.
He said the Commission also provided
support to six-hundred-and-sixty-eight orphans, one-hundred-and-nine Internally
Displaced Persons (IDPs), five-hundred-and-four sick people,
three-hundred-and-seventy stranded travelers, seventy-seven converts and two-hundred-and-eight needy.
Dahiru advised residents of the
State to desist from engaging in immoral acts and other vices capable of
destroying the society.
