The Bauchi State Hisbah Board has seized 260 crates of alcoholic drinks from hotels and night clubs as part of its effort to enforce Sharia Islamic law.
The Permanent Commissioner in charge of Hisbah and Sharia Implementation, Aminu Balarabe, disclosed this while displaying the seized items in Bauchi on Tuesday.
He said 216 crates were confiscated in Misau local government area and 44 in Bauchi club and some beer parlors located in Dass Park in Bauchi metropolis
”We will continue to beam our searchlight to unravel perpetrators of such misdemeanours,” he said.
Balarabe said the Board would soon seek for a court order to destroy the items as the subsisting Sharia law which was implemented in 2003 has unequivocally prohibited sales and consumption of alcoholic drinks.
He also said that 6 operators of beer parlors were arrested during the patrol and they would soon be prosecuted to serve as a warning to others.
”The only places where sales and consumption of alcoholic drinks are allowed are Military and Police barracks, National parks. We are fully committed to implementing our mandate,” he said.