Hisbah invades Kano varsity hostels, arrests male, female students found in same room

Operatives of the Islamic Police, Hisbah in Kano violated the privacy of some students of Bayero University, Kano, in off-campus hostels, on Wednesday.

The officers were said to have stormed the hostels arresting students of the opposite sex found in the same room.

It was gathered that the Hisbah men broke into the students’ rooms on Wednesday night at Danbare, a small community directly opposite the university’s gate, and took them to their office.

The Islamic police in Kano have in recent time violated manners of human rights raging from invasion of privacy, banning of stylish haircuts, sagging of trousers, drinking of alcohol, playing of music at social events by disk jockeys and tricycle riders from adorning their vehicles with pictures considered to be obscene and against the tenents of Islam.