A truck conveying bottles of beer has fallen near Hisbah office in Kano State.
Gatekeepers News reports that a Hilux truck conveying alcohol fell inside a ditch close to the Hisbah office in Panshekara, Kumbotso Local Government area of Kano State, North-West Nigeria.
The Kano State Hisbah Corps is a religious police force in Nigeria’s Kano state responsible for the enforcement of Sharia.
Residents rushed to the scene to rescue occupants of the truck and discovered that it was carrying alcoholic drinks.
The spokesperson of the Kano State Hisbah Board, Ibrahim Lawan Fagge, said its operatives had packed the broken bottles and other crates of the alcohol.
Fagge said, “Our operatives in that Local Government have been targeting the truck movement for long, until that fateful day that it had lone accident close to our office.
“Our findings have so far discovered that the Hilux driver has been using the truck, camouflaging as a security vehicle to convey the alcohol. So far, we have seized the vehicle, packed all the bottles to our headquarters at Sharada.”
