At least eight suspected cross-dressers have been arrested by Kano Hisbah Board during a wedding in Kofar Waika in Gwale Local Government Area of the state.
According to the News Agency of Nigeria, the Deputy Commander General of the Board, Dr. Mujaheed Aminudeen-Abubakar, disclosed this in a statemen made available to newsmen on Tuesday in Kano.
Aminudeen-Abubakar said the suspects were arrested following a tip-off by good Samaritans that young men dressed in female Fulani attire attended and were dancing at a wedding.
“Our officials on receiving the information, went to the venue of the wedding ceremony and apprehended eight young men, including the groom, dressed in full female Fulani attire, dancing to music in their regalia,” he said.
In the statement, the Commander General said that they confessed to the crime when arraigned before Hisbah Shari’a Court in Kano.
The Presiding Judge, Khadi Tanimu-Sani, ordered that each of them be given 10 lashes of cane, pay N20,000 and produce one surety each or be remanded in a correctional centre for three months.
The board, established in 2000, is saddled with the responsibilities of enjoining what is right and forbidding what is wrong in Islamic ways and manners.
