The Kano State Hisbah Board has arrested and detained the Jigawa State Commissioner of Special Duties, Auwal Danladi Sankara, for allegedly committing adultery with a married woman.
Sankara was arrested by the Kano State security outfit in an uncompleted building with the married woman.
The board’s Director General, Dr Abba Sufi, confirmed the arrest of Sankara with the married woman on Friday evening.
Sufi said the arrest was made possible through an intelligence tracking following receipt of series of complaints about the commissioner’s nefarious acts with the married woman by her husband’s younger brother.
“Yes, it is true, we have arrested Auwal Danladi Sankara, the Jigawa Commissioner, with a married woman in an uncompleted building that belongs to him. Unknown to him, we were tracking him based on reports against him that we received,” he said.
According to him, the arrest followed a complaint by Nasiru Bulama, the woman’s husband, who accused the commissioner of engaging in an illicit affair with his wife, Tasleem Baba Nabegu, the mother of his two children.
“Nasiru Bulama filed the complaint with the Kano State Police Command, the Department of State Services and the Hisbah Board, alleging Sankara’s involvement in illicit sexual activities with his wife,” the director-general said.
He said the board will take Sankara to Court on a number of cases against him including operating illicit drug centres with the names, Picklock, 360 and others.
“We have been having problems with Sankara because he is operating illicit drug centres in the names of hotels with prostitution and drug addiction activities,” he said, adding that the suspect will be arraigned before a competent court of law on Monday.