According to the Kano State Hisbah Board, during its patrols from January to December 2022, it detained 2,260 beggars for a variety of offences.
In order to stop people from begging on the streets in the state, the board said that 386 of the 1,269 people who had been arrested for begging had been sent back to their home states.
It said that 1,269 homeless people had been taken off the streets of Kano’s eight local government areas.
The board’s Commander General, Sheikh Harun Sina, told reporters on Thursday that while the majority of people detained for illegal activity were given over to security services for necessary action, the juveniles were sent back to their families.
He claimed that in order to reduce social vices in the state, the board had been successful in dispersing 86 immoral events, including same-sex weddings, drug parties, and other similar offences.
Sina said that 822 disagreements were settled peacefully, but he also said that some are still being heard in different courts because they are complicated.
He further mentioned that during the Da’awah campaign in 2022, 22 people converted to Islam, while fifteen couples were married at Hisbah.
“25 trucks of beer containing thousands of bottles were destroyed in 2022,” the commander general of the board declared. “Additional bottles of assorted beer would be wiped out before January 2023.”
In order to strengthen Hisbah, according to Sina, the Kano State Government hired 5,700 Hisbah Marshalls and 3,100 Hisbah Corps members. In addition, new buildings were constructed, and existing ones within the Hisbah headquarters and local government offices were renovated.
He noted that 1,000 Hisbah corps members were trained at the NYSC camp in the Kusalla Karaye local government area, and that the state government had also given new uniforms and other working supplies to the agency’s employees to further motivate them.
He clarified that the conversion of Hisbah Mosque into a Juma’at Mosque was authorised by the Emir of Kano, Aminu Ado Bayero.
He says that Hisbah paid for six of its employees to go to Saudi Arabia for the Hajj so that they could help Kano pilgrims on their yearly journey.
He gave parents and guardians advice to be more attentive and report any suspicious people or characters to the appropriate authorities, assuring them that the agency would not give up on its efforts to sanitise the state from all types of social vices.
