Operatives of the Hisbah Commission have arrested some Nigerian police officers in Zamfara state over alleged pr0stituti0n
The development resulted into clash between the hisbah operatives and the policemen in Gusau following allegations of taking women to hotels.
Addressing newsmen in Gusau, the Executive Chairman of Zamfara State Hisbah Commission, Sheikh Umar Hassan Gusau who spoke through his Director Operations, Lawal Abubakar Maradun said the Police have severrally been advised to desist from such acts but they persist
According to him, the police men always claim that they are security officers that Hisbah operatives have no constitutional right to challenge them.
“Our men on Monday caught some of them and confronted them which resulted in the clash which took us to the State Police headquarters”, he said.
When we arrest police men with a women in hotels, the police men would identify themselves while the women would not be able to identify themselves.
“However, those women would be arrested for alleged prostitution, we would warn them to desist from such illegal acts and if they are arrested again, they would be prosecuted”
“These police officers are supposed to be enforcing the law, but they are law breakers. knowing fully well that Zamfara is a Sharia State”, he lamented.
He said the officers involved are junior security men and that no senior security operative has been arrested before.
“The matter took us to the State Police Command headquarters so the commissioner could have knowledge of what his men are involved in”
“The Police Commissioner, Muhammad Dalija blamed his men for such immoral acts and warned them to desist”
“There is no doubt that the State. Hisbah Commission has ma utual understanding with the senior security officers in the state”
He said that his operatives have recently arrested over 200 youth for drug abuse, pointing out that many of them have been prosecuted, after several warnings.
He noted that the commission has the power to arrest, detain and prosecute offenders of the Sharia laws, stressing that the offenders would be warned, but any offence after the warning, the person must be charged to court
