By Aliyu Dangida
The Kano State Hisbah Board is seeking to arrest at least six famous Tiktok skit makers for allegedly posting vulgar skit videos on their Tiktok and other social media accounts, an act that the board says contradicts its laws.
Daily News 24 reports that the hunt for the entertainers comes few months after the Commander-General of the board, Sheikh Aminu Ibrahim Daurawa invited all female Tiktokers in Kano to a session, where the board offered to rehabilitate and empower them with businesses and scholarships.
At the meeting, Sheikh Daurawa had admonished all Tiktok and other social media entertainers to desist from posting content that is capable of encouraging immorality in the society.
It was learnt that among the six Tiktokers being sought by the Hisbah board include Murja Ibrahim Kunya, Abubakar Ibrahim (G-Fresh), Sadiya Haruna, Ashiru Idris (Maiwushirya), Ummee Shakira and Hassan Makeup.
In an interview with BBC Hausa, Sheikh Daurawa said the board was inviting the entertainers over some skit videos that emerged online showing them uttering objectionable words that contradict the undertaking they (the Tiktokers) signed at the Hisbah command.
“Our main objective at the Hisbah is to ensure that these entertainers stop posting unacceptable content. We don’t want to keep arresting them since they have signed an agreement with us when they were first arrested.
“But it appears that they are not abiding by the agreement they signed with us,” he said.
The Hisbah boss added that the board had no interest in punishing the Tiktokers yet, until they persist in violations of their agreement.
“We want them to come so that we would remind them of the agreement they signed with us promising to stop these bad things. We don’t plan to prosecute them until they persist in their transgressions,” he explained.
According to him, the Hisbah board had recently held discussions with officials Tiktok representatives in Lagos, where they assured us of their resolve to delete any account that was found to have violated rules such as breach of peace or insults against religions, whenever a report is filed against the account’s users.
“This is even more effective than arresting the Tiktok users. It is more painful for a Tiktok user to have their accounts deleted after gathering so many followers.,” Sheikh Daurawa said.
Additional report by Usman Usman Opera
