Nigeria bottles of beer: nearly 240,000 bottles of beer had been bulldozed by Islamic law-enforcing police in Nigeria Wednesday, AFP reported Thursday.
According to several reports this is the latest move of the authorities to hamper the deemed "immoral" tendencies of man in Nigeria's city of Kano.
About 240,000 of Nigerian bottles of beer had been confiscated for this move, and several trucks delivered the confiscated booze into the city in recent weeks, Hisbah officials noted, adding that the patrol behind the strict implementation of this Islamic law is known as sharia.
Aminu Daurawa, Kano's Hisbah chief, said that he has "the ardent hope [that] this [ceremony] will bring an end to the consumption of such prohibited substances" in the area.
Yahoo! News reported that the ceremony involved a large bulldozer that smashed the 240,000 Nigeria bottles of beer while the authorities and supporters shout "Allahu Ahkbar" (God is Great!) outside the headquarters in Kano.
Kano is the largest city in the northern part of Nigeria, which id mainly Muslim. Meanwhile, the southern part of the country is predominantly Christian, Inquisitr reported.
Aside from the bottles of beer, about 8,000 liters of "burukutu," a local alcoholic drink, and nearly 320,000 cigarettes were also destroyed in the ceremony.
"We hope this measure will help restore the tarnished image of Kano," Daurawa said.
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