The Kano State Hisbah Board has intercepted two truckloads of over 24,000 bottles of alcoholic drinks and three others had been arrested in reference to the detained vehicles on Wednesday.
The Shari’a compliance board disclosed that the suspected proprietor of the prohibited drinks narrowly escaped arrest at the same time as he tried to bribe its personnel.
Briefing journalists on the event on Wednesday, Performing Assistant Commander Basic, Clever Crimes Dispatch, Malam Fu’advert Dorayi mentioned the board won’t relent within the battle towards the violator of public orders within the state.
Based on Dorayi, “The culprits had been 4 together with the motive force of the heavy truck containing over 24,000 bottles of various beers.
“Others had been the proprietor of the products and two others. The proprietor of the products fled after trying to bribe us however was not profitable. So he pretended he needed to choose one thing and within the course of, he fled.
“At a degree, the motive force complained that one factor or the opposite was defective with the car, however we lastly succeeded in apprehending him and a couple of others.”
Dorayi urged the residents to at all times report any autos carrying suspected merchandise to the Hisbah Board, significantly, alongside Kano/Zaria Highway, Kano/Dayi Malumfashi Highway, Kano/Katsina Highway, Kano/Maiduguri Highway and Kano/Hadejia Highway amongst others.
Whereas conducting officers around the confiscated drinks on the Hisbah headquarters, the Director Basic of the Board, Abba Sa’id Sufi the numerous beer vowed to stay targeted within the battle towards smuggling of beers into the state capital via the neighboring states.
He maintained that Hisbah Corps within the state have been up and doing to implement the zero-tolerance smuggling of beer and intoxicated substances into Kano state alongside its neighboring states’ borders.
The DG Hisbah Board nonetheless counseled the hassle of his Corps within the state for his or her collaborative effort with the opposite stakeholders within the battle towards smuggling of beer into the state.
In 2020, Hisbah impounded and destroyed over a million bottles of alcoholic drinks, mentioned to have value over N200 million whereas being smuggled into town.
Comparable destruction of huge consignment of confiscated alcohol drinks of various manufacturers value N100 million had been additionally carried out in February, 2022, to discourage these smuggling the drinks into Kano realizing the chance of the financial loss concerned.
Though, the Structure of the Federal Republic of Nigeria as amended has not forbid gross sales and consumption of alcohol, Kano state authorities via the legislative act underneath the state Penal code 2004 prohibits the sale and distribution of all alcoholic substances within the state.