Hisbah Officials Cane 8 Cross Dressers In Kano
A Sharia Court Sitting at Kano Hisbah Board office complex on Tuesday administered 10 lashes of cudgel to 8 cross dressers each for indecency.
The action came shortly after the 8 convicts were found guilty by the Shariah court and sentenced to three months imprisonment or an option of N10,000, and ten strokes of cudgel each.
The suspects,who are mostly young men had collectively appealed for leniency and promised not to engage is such act settled for the second option.
Officials of the Sharia Court carried out the action in the public glare amid shout of “Allahu Akbar” God is greatest by enthusiastic onlookers.
Operatives of the Hisbah Board had earlier stormed a wedding reception at Gwale, in Kano metropolis and arrested 8 young men including the groom who were dressed in female Fulani attire dancing to music.
The 8 suspects were subsequently arranged before Mallam Sani Tamim Sani Hausawa, the presiding judge at Hisbah Shariah court who convicted them after they had pleaded guilty to the offence.
The Kano acting Commander of the Hisbah Board, Mujahideen Aminu Abubakar, thanked the Judge and promised to sustain the tempo of fight against indecency in the state.
