The Kano State Hisbah Corps was established by the state government in 2003 with the institutionalization of formerly local and privately maintained hisbah security units. [2] Hisbah, which is an Arabic word meaning an act performed for the good of the society, is an Islamic religious concept that calls for "enjoining what is right and forbidding what is wrong on every Muslim."[3] The Hisbah Corps, which operates under the jurisdiction of a Hisbah Board composed of government officials, secular police officers, and religious leaders, is highly decentralized with local units supervised by committees composed of officials and citizens in the communities in which they operate.[2]
The relationship between the Hisbah Corps and civil police has been sometimes acrimonious. The Nigeria Police Force (NPF), to whom the Hisbah must report crimes, frequently refuse to cooperate in enforcement of religious law.[4] On multiple occasions, NPF officers have arrested Hisbah members for trespassing when the latter have attempted to enter private property to enforce Sharia.[5] And, in 2006, two senior Hisbah officers were detained by federal police and questioned on suspicion they were seeking foreign funding to train militants.[6]
As of 2010 there were approximately 9,000 male and female officers of the Kano State Hisbah Corps
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OA;
The Hisbah Corps is a municipal, metropolitan security outfit - whose mandate to seek out offenders against the Islamic faith can be pretty subjective. On the other hand, Amotekun is a regional vehicle-patrol security outfit to contend with cross-border criminality of all kinds - of which herdsmen matter is but one. Smuggling of agric products; kidnapping, armed robbery etc across state lines will be given early warning signals by Amotekun operatives, who will be as effective as response to communication to with various operational command centers that have been set up.
The most important issue is confidence building.
Bolaji Aluko
--Do Hisbah members carry guns?
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I doff my hat for you, Moses Ebe Ochonu, for reminding us about Hisbah that has been operating in the Sharia controlled States of Nigeria since early 2000s. ÀMÒTÉKÙN is going to function like HISBAH in Sharia States as well as LIVE-STOCK GUARDS in Benue and Plateau States.S. Kadiri
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Ämne: Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - FAYEMI ON SOUTH-WEST SECURITY OUTFIT-AMOTEKUNHisbah opened the door
Wide did it open it
When the bandits came with gore
And armed herdsmen with ill
And kidnappers took a perch
The people, beleaguered, asked
Where is the door
That Hisbah unlocked?
It was the ninth hour
When they found it unlatched
Amotekun, tired but unmoored
Walked through
The door that Hisbah opened
--On Thu, Jan 9, 2020 at 1:38 PM Toyin Falola <toyinfalola@austin.utexas.edu> wrote:
--Sir:
I thought the Federal Govt just said that they could not carry arms. If they have no guns, what can they do?
TF
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Date: Thursday, January 9, 2020 at 1:26 PM
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Subject: USA Africa Dialogue Series - FAYEMI ON SOUTH-WEST SECURITY OUTFIT-AMOTEKUN
BREAKING NEWSTRANSLATE SELECT LANGUAGE▼ Amotekun not Regional Police — Fayemi ON JANUARY 9, 20206:14 PMIN NEWS, POLITICS Kindly Share This Story:FacebookTwitterEmailWhatsAppPinterestShare Governor Kayode Fayemi By Rotimi Ojomoyela Ekiti State Governor, Dr Kayode Fayemi, has said the newly launched Western Nigeria Security Network code-named Operation Amotekun is not out to undermine the integrity and sovereignty of Nigeria but were providing the Yoruba people with a "confidence-building strategy" to tackle crime and criminality in the region. Speaking in Ibadan at the launch of the security apparatus, Fayemi stated that Amotekun was neither an alternative to any of the conventional security agencies in the country nor a state police. He said the Southwest Governors designed Amotekun to complement and work in collaboration with existing security agencies to provide adequate security of lives and property in the region. "The Western Nigeria Security Network operation Amotekun is nothing but a community policing response to a problem that our people would like to put an end to. But pending the time that the community policing strategy being put together by the Nigeria Police comes to fruition, it is clearly important that we give our people a confidence-boosting strategy. "So if you ask me, Amotekun is nothing but a confidence-building strategy for our people in the western zone. When those elements that are going to work in the joint task force with the mainstream security agencies undertake this assignment, they are going to do it with the knowledge of the terrain, language and culture of the community they are going to work." "Amotekun is not a duplication neither is it a replacement for the Nigeria Police Force. Amotekun is a complement that gives our people the confidence that they are being looked after by the people they elected into office. We do not want this to create fear in the mind of anyone. We are not creating a regional police force. We are not oblivious of the steps we need to follow in forming a State police. We are law-abiding citizens of Nigeria. We know that will require a constitutional amendment and we are not there yet", he said. While commending the role played by the mainstream security agencies in tackling kidnapping and banditry in the zone, the governor said Amotekun would reduce the burden on the agencies which he described as "overstretched". Fayemi who added that the security agencies have embraced the Western Nigeria Security Network urged Nigerians not to give room for fears which may have emanated from the propaganda circulating in the social media about Amotekun. " We were daily assaulted by the spate of kidnapping, banditry, armed robbery across the length and breadth of the South West. We obviously sought succour in all the right places and the mainstream security tried their best in arresting the security situation. It was in the context of this development that we lost the daughter of our leader in Afenifere, Pa Fasoranti. READ ALSO: Amotekun not agenda to divide Nigeria ― Southwest govs " As elected leaders of our various States, our primary responsibility according to section (14)2 of the constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria as amended, is the security and welfare of our citizens and that's what informed the coming together of my colleagues and I to fashion a way that we can utilise to complement the work of our mainstream security agencies that are quite overstretched in their efforts to curb the menace that has afflicted not just our zone but the entire country at the time", he said. In his speech, the Chairman of the Western Nigeria Governors' Forum and Governor of Ondo State, Governor Rotimi Akeredolu said the governors are united in their resolve to ensure peace and security in the region. Akeredolu stated that the south-west governors cannot erect "an antagonistic structure whose template is against existing security apparatus". He said the " barbarism" displayed by criminal elements in the region gave the governors grave concern which necessitated the security platform. The governor stressed that he and his colleagues believed in the unity of Nigeria because the nation's "strength is in unity". Earlier in his welcome remarks, Governor Seyi Makinde had stated that development cannot take place in a state of insecurity. He added that Amotekun would protect the lives and property of indigene and non-indigene. Osun State Governor, Mr Gboyega Oyetola who was represented by his Deputy, Benedict Alabi thanked the service chiefs for their support in tackling insecurity in the region. He assured that Amotekun would work in collaboration with all security agencies.
Read more at: https://www.vanguardngr.com/2020/01/amotekun-not-regional-police-fayemi/--
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