A relative to a Christian barber, who was arrested for blasphemy, has refuted the claim by the Police PRO in Kano that Elijah Ode 39;s arrest was in connection with a rape incident.
My name is Elijah, I m a barber based in kano.
I was being arrested by Matro Area command police authority bank road kano on 15th January 2021. Reasons for the arrest goes thus: According to the police officers that showed up in my shop that day, in response to the allegation made against me by some members of the Islamic group in Kano, they said that they received a report that I gave two of my clients a haircut style with a design of an image which was said to have some similarities with something in Islamic religious group. However, they eventually arrested me, took some of my barbing tools. They also arrested the two of my clients who had the hairstyle on their heads. We were being detained till in the evening on Friday.
Barber Arrested In Kano For Giving Customers Haircuts That Offend Islam
It was learnt that the religious police force reportedly arraigned Ode on Tuesday and also had him remanded.
by SaharaReporters, New York
Feb 03, 2021
The Kano State Hisbah Corps has arrested a barber from Benue State, Elijah Ode, for allegedly giving his customers haircuts which offend the Islamic faith in the Sabongari area of the state.
It was learnt that the religious police force reportedly arraigned Ode on Tuesday and also had him remanded.
According to a Benue State activist, Smith Akoko, who first brought the matter to the attention of Nigerians, the barber, who is also a student, was arrested last Wednesday, after two of his customers were caught with hairstyles deemed blasphemous to the Islamic religion.