- The Hisbah Corps are known for enforcing religious doctrines in the Kano Area
- It secured the arrest of a Kano-based musician for alleged blasphemy last year.
The Kano State Hisbah Corps has arrested Elijah Ode, a barber in the Sabongari area for allegedly cutting hairstyles that offend the Islamic faith for his customers.
Eko Hot Blog learnt that the religious police was said to have arraigned Ode on Tuesday and also had him remanded.
A Benue State activist, Smith Akoko, who first brought the matter to the attention of Nigerians said, the barber, who is also a student, was arrested last Wednesday, after two of his customers were caught with hairstyles deemed blasphemous to the Islamic religion.
His cousin, Sunday Ukenya, who confirmed the incident to Akoko, said the Hisbah corps arraigned Elijah in court on Tuesday February 2, and thereafter remanded him in prison.
It is not clear yet when his trial would resume.
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Ode, a resident of Kano from Adum East, Obi Local Government Area of Benue State, who combines his barbing vocation with his studies, was accused by the Islamic police of committing blasphemy in the course of his work as a barber.
According to eyewitnesses, Elijah, who is well patronised by young people for possessing exceptional skills in giving trendy haircuts, attracted the wrath of the extremists last Wednesday when two of his customers were tortured to stupour for having haircuts claimed to be blasphemous to the Islam.
Thereupon, Elijah was traced to his barbershop, where he was arrested for complicity, and put in police detention with the two customers last week.
According to information obtained from a family member, Ode did not design the hairstyles with the intention to provoke.
The source said, “He is only being innovative and to improve on his work, which he used to eke out a living for himself and pay his fees at his tertiary institution of study in Kano, where he sponsors himself.
“The case is already in the court of law at the wish of the aggrieved Muslims with the first session heard yesterday. But all efforts by the young barber’s lawyer to bail him proved abortive because of the claim that it is a major case and therefore not bailable.
“At the moment, the family has run out of hope, soliciting intercessory prayers as the reality of incarceration stares Elijah in the face.”
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