Kano State Hisbah Board has disclosed its plans to invite parents of Shatu Garko, the winner of 2021 Miss Nigeria, over their daughter’s “illegal” participation in the beauty pageant.
Gatekeepers News reports that Garko, a hijab model from the Northern part of the country, was crowned the 44th Miss Nigeria on Friday night.
Displeased with the development, Kano Hisbah board commandant, Haruna Ibn-Sina said Garko’s parents will be interrogated over the action of their daughter which is against Islamic tenets.
“We (Hisbah) has confirmed that Shatu Garko is a Muslim from Kano state and her parents come from Garko LGA. Kano is a Sharia state and this is why we will not allow the matter to die like that,” he said.
“We will invite the parents to talk to them about the actions of their daughter and the fact that what she did is illegal in Islam. This is to make them know that she cannot continue that path and also stop other girls from copying her,” he said in a chat with BBC Pidgin.
The Hisbah commandant added that: “In Islam, it is forbidden for anyone to participate in a beauty contest. A lot of things happen in such contest which is against Islam. For instance, there is usually a lot of people usually exposure their body exposure during the event while such contest teaches girls not to be shy and reserved.”
The organisers of such beauty pageants, according to him, risk God’s wrath.
