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Sharia Police Arrests Barber For Giving Customers Haircuts That ‘Offend’ Islam in Kano

Tare Magbei
Tare Magbei
Published: February 10, 2025
Last updated: February 10, 2025
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Sharia Police Arrests Barber For Giving Customers Haircuts That 'Offend' Islam in Kano | Daily Report Nigeria
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The Hisbah Sharia police in Kano State has arrested a barber identified as Elijah Ode, over allegations of giving customers haircuts offend Islam.

The Benue born Ode was picked up by Hisbah in the Sabongari area of the state on Tuesday.

According to sources, Ode was forcely arraigned by the religious police force, who also had him remanded on the strange charges.

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Benue State activist, Smith Akoko, was the first person to bring the issue into the public space.

Smith nareated that the barber, who is a student, was arrested last Wednesday, after two of his customers were caught with hairstyles deemed blasphemous to the Islamic religion.

His cousin, Sunday Ukenya, who confirmed the incident to Akoko, said the Hisbah corps arraigned Elijah in court on Tuesday, February 2, and thereafter remanded him in prison.

It is not clear yet when his trial would resume.

Elijah Ode, a resident of Kano from Adum East, Obi Local Government Area of Benue State, combines barbing vocation with his studies. He was accused by the Islamic police of committing blasphemy in the cause of his work as a barber.

According to eyewitnesses, Elijah, who is well patronised by young people for possessing exceptional skills in giving trendy haircuts, attracted the wrath of the extremists last Wednesday when two of his customers were tortured to stupour for having haircuts claimed to be blasphemous to the Islam.

Thereupon, Elijah was traced to his barbershop, where he was arrested for complicity, and put in police detention with the two customers last week.

A family member explained that Ode did not design the hairstyles with the intention to provoke anyone.

The source said, “He is only being innovative and to improve on his work, which he used to eke out a living for himself and pay his fees at his tertiary institution of study in Kano, where he sponsors himself.

“The case is already in the court of law at the wish of the aggrieved Muslims with the first session heard yesterday. But all efforts by the young barber’s lawyer to bail him proved abortive because of the claim that it is a major case and therefore not bailable.

“At the moment, the family has run out of hope, soliciting intercessory prayers as the reality of incarceration stares Elijah in the face.”

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