Kano Hisbah arrests Jigawa commissioner over alleged illicit affair with married woman

The Kano State Hisbah Board has confirmed the arrest and detention of the Jigawa State Commissioner of Special Duties, Auwal Danladi Sankara, who was caught in a compromising position with a married woman in an uncompleted building.

Hisbah Director General, Abba Sufi, who confirmed the arrest of Sankara, said he was arrested after the board received a series of complaints of his immoral activities with the married woman.

Sufi said: “Yes, it is true. We have arrested Auwal Danladi Sankara, the Jigawa Commissioner. He was arrested with a married woman in an uncompleted building that belongs to him, unknown to him that we were tracking him based on reports received against him.”

The arrest, according to him, followed a complaint by Nasiru Bulama, the woman’s husband, who accused the commissioner of engaging in an illicit affair with his wife, Tasleem Baba Nabegu, the mother of his two children.

“Nasiru Bulama filed the complaint with the Kano State Police Command, the Department of State Services, DSS, and the Hisbah Board, alleging Sankara’s involvement in illicit sexual activities with his wife,” he added.

Sufi explained that Hisbah will be taking Sankara to court on several cases against him.

“We have been having problems with Sankara because he is operating illicit drug centres under the guise of hotels, which are covers for prostitution and drug addiction activities,” he alleged.

Sufi added that they are prosecuting Sankara on Monday at a competent court of law.