{"id":1268131,"date":"2022-12-20T17:26:04","date_gmt":"2022-12-20T17:26:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/12\/20\/19-arrested-for-attending-same-sex-marriage-in-kano\/"},"modified":"2022-12-20T17:26:04","modified_gmt":"2022-12-20T17:26:04","slug":"19-arrested-for-attending-same-sex-marriage-in-kano","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/12\/20\/19-arrested-for-attending-same-sex-marriage-in-kano\/","title":{"rendered":"19 Arrested For Attending Same-Sex Marriage In Kano"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The Kano State Hisbah Board (an agency enforcing Islamic religious morals) has arrested 19 youths for attending a same-sex marriage ceremony.<\/p>\n<p>Hisbah\u2019s spokesman, Malam Lawan Ibrahim, said the youths gathered to witness the wedding of two suspected homosexuals, Abba and Mujahid.<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ ALSO: <\/strong>We\u2019re Working To Stop Negative Profiling Of Nigerians Abroad \u2013 Osinbajo<\/p>\n<p>Ibrahim also said those arrested will be handed over to the police for necessary action.<\/p>\n<p>He said, \u201cThe arrest was made after a Good Samaritan hinted to the board about the same-sex marriage.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur personnel attached to Hisbah board headquarters, Sharada Kano, arrived at the scene before the commencement of the wedding.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAmong those arrested were 15 females and four males.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAbba and Mujahid escaped immediately Hisbah personnel arrived at the wedding venue, but the organiser, Salma Usman, 21, is in our custody.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThose arrested will be handed over to the police for necessary action as most of the ladies claimed they were invited to the wedding from neighbouring states.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe shall intensify efforts to ensure that Abba and Mujahid are arrested.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Kano State Hisbah Board (an agency enforcing Islamic religious morals) has arrested 19 youths for attending a same-sex marriage ceremony. Hisbah\u2019s spokesman, Malam Lawan Ibrahim, said the youths gathered to witness the wedding of two suspected homosexuals, Abba and Mujahid. READ ALSO: We\u2019re Working To Stop Negative Profiling Of Nigerians Abroad \u2013 Osinbajo Ibrahim [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1268132,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3888],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1268131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1268131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1268131"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1268131\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1268131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1268131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1268131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}