Top Official Declared Wanted( PHOTO)

The Kano State Hisbah Board has sacked one of its top officials for compromising and sabotaging the current fight against immorality and social vices in the state.

The board is also known as morality police or an Islamic religious police force.

This was revealed by the Commandant General of Hisbah, Sheikh Aminu Daurawa while speaking to journalists on Tuesday.

The board recently launched an operation to tackle social vices within the metropolis of Kano and beyond, under Operation Kau da Badala, which means an operation against immorality in the state.

Sheikh Aminu Daurawa added that at least five other officers were also under investigation, explaining that the dismissed official was found conniving with bad elements to perpetrate immoralities in the state.

Daurawa was quoted by The PUNCH as saying: “Upon my assumption of office, I hit the ground running by sanitising the board of bad eggs as the board is no longer the same as it used to be.

“We have dismissed a Deputy Superintendent of Hisbah and declared him wanted. Wherever he is found he should be arrested and prosecuted.”

He explained that the officer in question was paid by hotel owners so that Hisbah would not raid their facilities during its operations.

The Hisbah Commander continued: “So when we carried out the raid operation, the hoteliers where such atrocities were carried out became jittery that Hisbah had changed.

“They paid him money not to carry out operations on their hotel. There was one among the hotel operators who asked us what we wanted them to do for us to support us.”