Katsina Hisbah settles 2,500 marriage cases – Official

The Katsina State Hisbah Board says it has settled more than 2,500 marriage-related cases since its establishment by Gov. Dikko Radda.

The Hisbah Commander General in the state, Dr Aminu Usman (Abu Ammar), disclosed this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Katsina on Tuesday.

He said that the board was established by the governor to address the moral decadence and social vices bedeviling the society across the state.

“Issue of divorce has been a source of concern in the state; however, with the hHisbah intervention, over 2,500 marriages were sustained,” the commander general said.

He further explained that without their intervention, those women would have been divorced by their husbands, and spread in the society to become something else.

The Hisbah commander general said: “This is an achievement because we have succeeded in tackling the rampant cases of divorce in the state.

“The board has also succeeded in returning back to their parents more than 500 girls, who have abandoned their families for months or years, to become street girls.”

He explained that some of the girls who have turned various joints across the state their homes, were found with children out of wedlock.

Usman said: “Those with children, we traced those that impregnated them and forced the males to take in the females as their wives.

“I can boldly tell you that such issues mentioned above have drastically reduced across the state. This success was recorded due the unrelenting support the governor has been given us.”

NAN reports that Hisbah is an institution established to uphold the Shari’ah Legal System by protecting society from moral decadence, deviance, preserving faith, and ensuring the welfare of people.

Its functions also include drawing attention to transgression, enjoining people to do good and preventing them from evil acts among others.