The Kano State Hisbah Board says it arrested more than 600 people across the state during the recent Sallah festivities for offences ranging from indecent dressing to immoral acts, while also recovering 66 missing children.

Deputy Commander General of the Board, Dr Mujahiddin Aminuddin, told Daily Trust on Monday that the arrests were part of efforts to safeguard morality and culture during the celebrations.

He said Hisbah deployed over 9,500 operatives across Kano to monitor the Sallah festivities.

Aminuddin said among those arrested were 275 youths for “indecent barbing,” 85 tricycle drivers for carrying female passengers by their side, 21 for wearing short knickers, and 286 women for indecent dressing.

“A local government chairman was also picked up in a hotel with children without parental consent, we later called all their parents and reunited them and later released them,” he added.

The Deputy Commander added that other cases included a husband and wife involved in violent thuggery, a youth accused of providing lodges for adultery and sodomy, a trader allegedly keeping weapons for thugs, and a sorcerer who married off a lady without her family’s approval.

Dr Aminuddin said the board also reunited 66 lost children with their parents and dispersed youths attempting to hold a party in Sabon Gari.

He stressed that Sallah should be a time for Muslims to seek forgiveness, not indulge in acts contrary to Islamic values.

“All these things are against our culture and tradition. We warn event centre proprietors not to host activities that go against our values, because Hisbah will not allow it. People should also help us by reporting wrongdoing so we can sanitize Kano,” he added. (Daily Trust)