The Kano State Hisbah Board has arrested no fewer than 20 men and women for engaging in gender-inclusive bathing at a leisure centre located at Ring Road in Kano.
The Hisbah board’s Operation Kau Da Badala carried out the arrest after receiving complaints from local residents.
Reports quoted Deputy Commandant General of the board, Dr Mujahidin Aminuddin Abubakar, as saying that the activity contravened Hisbah law.
“The offence contravened Hisbah law as it forbids mingling together of both genders inside the water to bathe,” he said.
Furthermore, he expressed concern over such activities, suggesting that the individuals involved could have engaged in more beneficial and rewarding activities in accordance with religious teachings.
He, therefore, urged parents and guardians to closely monitor their children’s whereabouts.
The suspects, Abubakar said, would face appropriate punishment after investigation, urging parents and guardians to closely monitor their children’s whereabouts and what they do at their leisure time
