Nigeria’s Commissioner Who Promised to Never Disappoint, Arrested for Adultery and Sales of Illicit Drugs
A Nigeria Commissioner in the northwestern part of the country has been arrested for adultery, sales of illicit drugs and running a brothel. He will be prosecuted on Monday for the acts, report says.
The Commissioner who is in charge of the Jigawa State Governor’s Special Duties, Auwal Danladi Sankara, was arrested by the operatives of the Kano State Hisbah Board on Friday.
Hisbah is a widely known religious Organisation, formally founded in 2000 to uphold Islamic laws in Kano and all other northern States.
Adultery in northern Nigeria is unlawful, according to the Sharia Law and it is the duty of Hisbah officers to arrest and bring to justice any defaulters.
Reports from the Hisbah Director General, Dr. Abba Sufi, noted that Commissioner Sankara was arrested in an uncompleted building, having canal knowledge with a married woman.
Sankara, who had promised to never disappoint the citizens of Jigawa, was caught pant down, in the uncompleted building which he also own, Hisbah’s report says.
Dr Sufi, while commenting on the development, said the arrest was made possible through intelligent tracking after receiving a series of complaints of his nefarious acts with the married woman by her husband’s younger brother.
“Yes, it is true, we have arrested Auwal Danladi Sankara, the Jigawa Commissioner, with a married woman in an uncompleted building that belongs to him.
“Unknown to him that we were tracking him based on reports against him that we received,” Dr. Sufi said.
According to him, the arrest followed a complaint by Nasiru Bulama, the woman’s husband, who accused the commissioner of engaging in an illicit affair with his wife, Tasleem Baba Nabegu, the mother of his two children.
“Nasiru Bulama filed the complaint with the Kano State Police Command, the Department of State Services and the Hisbah Board, alleging Sankara’s involvement in illicit sexual activities with his wife,” the official added.
The DG explained that they are taking Sankara to Court on a number of cases against him including operating illicit drug centres with the names Picklock, 360 and others.
He said, “We have been having problems with Sankara because he is operating illicit drug centres in the names of hotels with prostitution and drug addiction activities”.
Sufi added that they are prosecuting Auwalu Sankara on Monday at a competent court of law.
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