Kano State Hisbah Police, an agency saddled with the responsibility of the enforcement of Sharia doctrine in Kano State, has banned the use of mannequins (dummy) to display clothes by tailors, supermarkets, and boutique owners in the state.
The agency also warned that, it would raid those places to remove them, describing the use of the mannequins for advert purposes as idolatery.
The Commander of the state Hisbah board, Sheikh Aroun ibn Sina, who announced the ban in a statement, added that the use of mannequins by tailors, boutique owners and others contravened the provision of Islamic injunctions.
He also said that the agency would embark on sensitisation of the people, to educate them on how Islam frowns on the use of the mannequins across the state, while the agency will send its officials to apprehend and prosecute offenders.
