Yobe launches Hisbah Commission

Yobe State has established its own Hisbah Commission to reduce the practice of social vices and support the implementation of Shariah throughout the state.

Hisbah is a type of religious police created to combat social vices and uphold social propriety in Muslims’ everyday behavior in an Islamic society. Non-Muslims are not subject to its enforcement unless they choose to be.

By creating the Hisbah Commission in 2000 to enforce the adoption of the Shariah shortly after its proclamation by the then-Ahmad Yerima administration, Kano State became the first state in the federation to establish a religious police.

The establishment of such societal reorientation administrative tools as “A Daidaita Sahu” in Kano and “Gyara Kayanka… ” in Bauchi across many of the Sharia-proclaiming Northern states in the year 2000 was made possible by this development, which was sparked by Kano State on the basis of Sharia.

The Yobe State Government may have grown extremely concerned about the prevalence of social vices now existing in the state or the potential for their expansion throughout the state.

Therefore, on Friday, October 6, the State Hisbah Commission bill was signed into law by Governor Mai Mala Buni of the state.

The law takes immediate effect.

“The Hisbah Commission law is to monitor the enforcement and implementation of Shariah and prevent other social vices in the state,” the Governor’s spokesman, Mamman Mohammed, said in a statement mailed to The PUNCH.