Nigeria: Religious police destroy nearly 4 million bottles of beer in northern Muslim part of country

More than 3.8 million bottles of beer were destroyed by his Islamic police Canoestate in its northern part Nigeria which is predominantly Muslim and where the sale and consumption of alcohol is prohibited.

In recent months, the religious police, the Hisbachtightened crackdowns on drugs and alcohol in this state where Islamic law applies.

On Wednesday (9/2), hundreds of police officers Hisbach transferred to the village Tudun Kalebaua 3,873,163 bottles of alcohol. The bottles had been confiscated in recent months from trucks coming from the south of the country, mostly Christian, where the Islamic law.

Bulldozers then destroyed the bottles as the crowd shouted «Allahu Akbar» (“God is great”), while among those present were high-ranking officials of Hisbach and local government.

Religious police eventually set fire to what was left of the bottles and alcohol, which had been burning all night, according to villagers.

“The Canoe “It is a state where Islamic law is enforced and the sale, consumption and possession of alcohol is prohibited,” he said. HisbachThe Haruna Ibn Sina, during the ceremony. “The consignments of beer were destroyed following a court decision,” he explained.

The Canoe is one of the predominantly Muslim states in the north of the country, which reintroduced a strict version of Islamic law after the restoration of democracy in Nigeria in 1999 after 15 years of military dictatorship.

The sale and consumption of alcohol is prohibited there and those who break the law risk being punished with 80 bucks.


Source: News Beast

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