80,000 bottles of beer smashed in Kano to usher in Ramadan fasting

Beer bottles

Islamic police have smashed 80,000 bottles of beer in the Nigerian city of Kano according to AFP, the French News agency.

The beer smashing exhibition took place on   Tuesday to enforce a sharia law banning consumption of alcohol especially as the Ramadan fast season knocked on the door.

Sharia law enforcement exists in much of Northern part of Nigeria.

Over a dozen veiled female sharia police, called Hisbah, destroyed the beer bottles with sticks amid shouts of “Allahu Akbar” (God is Great) on the outskirts of the northern city in a ceremony.

The ceremony was attended by government officials as part of “efforts to rid the state of immorality,” said Kano state Hisbah chief Saidu Dukawa. Kano city is the capital of the state by the same name.

“The sale and consumption of alcohol, like all forms of drugs and intoxicants, is illegal in Kano state, which practices sharia law and by this event we are enforcing that ban,” Dukawa told AFP.

Thirteen trucks brought the bottles of beer to the venue.

The alcohol had been seized at the weekend by sharia police as the bottles were being delivered to the city from the mainly Christian south, where most of the country?s breweries are located, Dukawa said.

Although the sale and consumption of alcohol is banned in Kano state, beer trucks find their way to taverns in the predominantly Christian Sabongari neighbourhood, which is practically exempt from sharia law….

Nigeria is Africa’s most populous nation, and roughly half of the 150 million population is Muslim.

What if the other half wants a beer?

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