The Kano State Government has imprisoned 50 married men and 5 women for 4 months for taking alcoholic beverages during the Ramadan month.
Kano State Hisba Board Director-General, Alhaji Abba Sufi, said the convicts were arrested last week following raids on their hideouts.
“All the 55 persons were sentenced to four months imprisonment without option of fine in order to serve as deterrent to others who might contemplate doing same.
“From those arrested, 50 of them are married men while the remaining five are women.
“Even if we are not in the month of Ramadan, nobody should take alcohol because the state is implementing Sharia law,” Sufi said.