The Kano State Hisbah Board has successfully confiscated a truck carrying more than 24,000 bottles of assorted alcoholic beverages.
The seizure took place on Zaria Road in Kano, and the Hisbah officials also apprehended the truck driver along with two other individuals.
The Director-General of the Kano State Hisbah Board, Alhaji Abba Sufi, revealed this information in an official statement signed by the board’s Public Relations Officer, Mr. Lawan Ibrahim-Fagge, on Wednesday in Kano.
According to Sufi, the operation occurred at midnight and was a result of the Hisbah personnel’s vigilance in enforcing a zero-tolerance policy against the smuggling of beer and other intoxicating substances into the state.
He stated, “The truck containing over 24,000 bottles of assorted alcoholic beverages was confiscated from smugglers along Zaria Road at midnight.”
The truck driver and the two other persons arrested will face the appropriate legal actions in accordance with the law.
