 and where was he arrested and what lies ahead of the retained leader of the indigenous people of Biafra in Nambu Kano for refining out from his representative. The gunmen attack Kano State Government of the Lahi Gangu days of convoy a day after the killing of a Zafra state lawmaker. And Kano State Sharia police the Hizvah bans the use of mannequins to display clothes in batiks of market. Glad to have you join us on the breakfast on Plos TV Africa. I am Annette Felix. And I am Usaugi Ogmawa. Welcome to the month of July. Happy new month. I think that works and we hope that it's going to be a very interesting one on the breakfast and of course in your lives at home. Indeed and we know that the mannequin is trending today and not because of the beautiful clothes on them but because in Kano State the Hizvah you know is basically saying that mannequins in Kano is is basically banned. And the Hizvah commander in Kano basically says that using mannequins you know promotes immorality and it just makes me ask questions you know lots of questions about what they perceive as immorality and how exactly they would think about it that way because it mentioned how this goes against all the Sharia laws. It goes against Islam and that anybody who's found it's a mannequin or using mannequin to display their their outfit would be arrested and the Kano State has been divided into five basically. So I mean this is this is what it is in Kano State at the moment. It makes you wonder if this basically is the priority in the state or just how big of an issue is you know morality and the use of mannequins in Kano. Well this is you know just another example of you know moments when grown-ups and you know society refuses to take or you know let people take responsibility for their actions and instead blames you know very very irrelevant things you know it's pretty much similar with you know when when we have conversations on sexual assault you know in in concerts you know and instead of the conversation to be to let young men in the society know that they need to be able to have better self-control and there's no excuse whatsoever why you shouldn't be able to have self-control regardless of what a woman is wearing or regardless or whatever you know stupid story that they used to defend it. They always was you know they shy away from that conversation and instead focus more attention on oh you know why would she wear that oh why is she coming out to a concert at night where there's you know going to be young men and things like that. So it's another you know example this but this one is even more silly and also it's it's worrisome for me because well not just for me for a lot of people that have been responded is because it seems like Hisba is turning into and so when I saw someone comment and say Hisba is turning into you know a very very very sachet low-key group let me not call them you know the names that they call them that basically is going to start pushing out its own ideologies on society based on what it what it is that they wake up with you know in the morning they might wake up tomorrow morning and say that well they're not very comfortable with women driving in Cano and they will get there and start to try to enforce a ban on women driving in Cano and that's that's really where it's going because for the longest time they've continued to make their own laws make their own rules and just be reckless arrest people for reasons that are completely unconstitutional. Bandicin of Pierre, arrest people who sell Pierre. I saw a story yesterday where a guy was arrested because he refused to pray after you know the same Hisba cut his hair or some some story like that and so they've they've turned into a completely almost lawless society trying to enforce their own laws on the people and so whoever it is that wakes up in the morning the Hisba chairman of or you know whoever is in charge of Hisba in that state might wake up or in that community might wake up in the morning and decide well you know I I'm very very uncomfortable with Maggie these days I think we need to ban you know Maggie I'm very very uncomfortable with the you know type of onions that they sell these days how come this only promotes immorality we need to ban it and that's where it's getting to someone actually said it's getting you know they're starting to push a very similar ideology with the Boko Haram you know who simply don't like Western education and so they decided that they you know we're going to be fighting against Western education some of all of that and that's where it's going because a mannequin is simply to display clothes to display wears and if you and your society cannot see it as simply just a plastic you know whatever creation to display beautiful fashion to display clothes then you have a problem how do you even get ideas by looking at a mannequin plastic really how do you get ideas that's that's really where we are with it I think it just exposes the perversion in my opinion if you're banning the use of mannequins in Kano it just exposes the perversion of the people who started the law people who are trying to enforce the law rather than the general public because you need to check yourself in your mind yes and that's why I I've started by saying that they basically are starting to get to a place where they refuse to take responsibility for their thoughts and for their actions and for the lack of self-control that they have but instead they force new laws and new rules on society forgetting that that the Kano state is not just a muslim state they are christians who also live in Kano who do business aside stats I mean check the news and find out this is just fact right people who commit rapes in that place you hear an islamic cleric rapes two-year-old so are you saying that he wasn't islam enough so obviously not but it's it's important you know and I said this I think I said this two days ago that people in northern Nigeria need to start to act and talk and speak against some of all these things before it gets too late before because it's going to get to a stage where it is now beyond control it's going to get to a stage where there's now a lot of young men who feel entitled to make laws in society who feel entitled to decide that well we don't like the way that this thing happens here or we don't like the way that you know this person's rights have been you know the person enjoys his his own human rights and we would fight against it and if they don't start to speak and control those things now it's going to get late very very soon and we will have another problem on our hands the Nigerian government itself being silent mean quiet the state government themselves being silent when these things are happening is is shocking for me that no state governor in the whole of northern Nigeria has been able to say this this thing you're saying please relax you know understand you know Sharia laws understand you know Islam and you know some of other things they're saying but relax please we still live in a same society where these things should not be a problem and you cannot wake up in the morning and decide on your own that this thing will no longer be used in my state you need to relax I think I think when when we look at the impact of this law it seems like from a purely religious angle but you know what in fact this I have on people's businesses because people who basically sell wares who sell you know all their you know attire for you know I don't know what they're calling out Jalabiya I believe you know they need to display these things people need to see just how a great fit it would be and you're saying that people should not promote their businesses using mannequins so she just hang them I mean I wouldn't I wouldn't see the fitting of an outfit if it's not a mannequin would I or do I have to go try on every outfit before I decide if I want to make a purchase so I think on the long one this is just going to affect people's businesses and that really shouldn't be the aim of whatever this law is shame on shame on whoever it is and you know whoever they are who woke up that morning and decided that that's going to be a new law because it really just tells me that a lot of those people in those groups have zero self-control over themselves and they try to impose that lack of self-control on the people so terrible and basically his name he's the commander general of his but in Cano's state his name is Sheikh Harun Ibn Sina he announced this on Wednesday saying the use of mannequins for ad-hut purposes contravenes Islamic injunctions let's know what you think on our social media platforms is at plus TV Africa on Facebook and Instagram still staying with Cano the convoy of Governor Abdulahi Ganderjee was attacked by gunmen yesterday and three security personnel were injured reports say the convoy was returning from Zamfara state where Ganderjee had joined other APC governors to welcome the governor of Zamfara state to his party the Cano state commissioner for information Mohammed Gaba says Governor Ganderjee wasn't traveling in the convoy when the attack took place okay so still in Cano states talking about security and this comes just after a lawmaker in Cano state was reported to have been killed by tourists around the Shemeh Funtua Road in Katzina state so we've had attacks on different governors in the north and now it's the governor of Cano state here but what I find interesting is when a pressman reached out to the police PR in Cano state they denied any knowledge of it they said we don't have any idea we were not informed about any attack on the governor and they referred them to the Zamfara state police you know they contacted the Zamfara state police and they said they have no idea what happened because the Cano state governor had joined other governors to welcome Governor Bello Betawali of Zamfara who had joined who was just defected from the PDP to the all progressives congress so the Zamfara state police PR said they have no idea what happened and referred them to the Katzina state governor so it makes you want to ask what really are the facts of this matter was there really an attack if all the police spokespersons are denying knowledge of such attack but then we also hear news about people in the convoy so setting varying degrees of injuries oh well it's expected you know and it's it's a regular normal practice for Nigerian police to first of all deny you know some of all these things and then eventually when you know it's now public notice then they put out a you know an actual statement so there is that you know it's also mentioned that the governor wasn't in the convoy at the time that this attack took place but you know what what I find funny is the fact that a governor decides to change parties and you know you see governors from different states traveling to go welcome him into a party so he woke up you know whatever whenever that you know decision came over him and decide I'm going to change party and so all of you are traveling now to welcome him into a party something as irrelevant as that is putting Nigerian governors on the road with their convoys and every single time that those convoys have to move it cost them you know taxpayers money so they move with those 10, 12, 15 vehicles to a different state to go welcome a governor and it's the same thing when you know somebody decides that their daughter wants to get married you see Nigerian governors leave their duty posts that they leave states that they're meant to govern and travel all the way private jets are going to be landing in different states you know just for somebody's son's wedding so that's you know the the first point you know that I will make with how irrelevant some of all these trips are and then second is the fact that there is you know been loads of conversations on things that that shouldn't really be their concerns but the the biggest challenge that they have which is security they've refused to actually focus and speak about these things and they act like all is well and all is fine so the same you know the country where you as a governor can't even travel freely without being sure of your safety is the same country where you of course are what you're traveling to welcome another you know governor into a party not like you can boldly say that that party has done exceptionally well because your life is in danger you know because you've simply gone to welcome that governor and so we spoke about Namdi County yesterday and the fact that there's a lot of people who were celebrating oh he has been you know he has been rearrested forgetting that the main problem that they face in their states is not necessarily in Namdi County the main problem they face in their states is security and a lot of them cannot travel freely a lot of them cannot go to their farms or their villages or to their hometowns freely believing that they will make it there and come back home safely and that should really be their problem it shouldn't be anything else but the fact that their states aren't safe most of all those states those communities those villages aren't safe a lot of people hundreds dozens thousands of people have been chased out of their hometowns you know by bandits and by terrorists and whoever whoever else and it still is an ongoing problem I think it was Zamfara state lawmaker who was killed the state house of assembly member who was killed that doesn't happen you know in just randomly you know he didn't die you know in a car accident you know he was attacked by gun by gunmen he was killed his son was kidnapped and I think his driver also was also kidnapped and that is still you know a challenge in that part of in in that state these are problems that they can see that happen to them every day but it doesn't seem to be a big enough problem for residents in that state for people in that state to say oh we've had enough you know something must be done they don't seem to see it as a as a big enough challenge for them but there's other things of course that happen that create more public outcry like mannequins his bad doesn't you know decide you know of course I know it's not their role but if they don't wake up in morning and say man we really need to do what must be done to ensure that our states are safe and ensure that whoever is in charge of security both at the federal level and at state level and the local government level takes responsibility for the lives and security of the people of this state those things aren't challenges it is a mannequin they can even ban phones and say you know with phones you can have access to content that is on Islamic so I wouldn't be surprised if I hear tomorrow that they're banning smartphones you just need to have that well 33 if it is not if it is not checked it will get there you know and slowly you know with each new day and each new law and each new thing that is banned you know we're going all the way back to the 16th century and we spoke not long ago about Saudi Arabia you know now freeing up your the anniversary I think of a Saudi Arabia allowing women to drive we're going back to a place in northern Nigeria where his bar is taking you know those people back to 1970 and back to 1960 because some of these things that they mentioned and they decide to ban and they arrest people for are things that probably happen in the 40s or in the 50s and that's where they're going but Saudi Arabia that they all go for to a mecca for pilgrimage for pilgrimage is moving forward advancing it's advancing with their own idea and their own understanding of Islam but these people choose to remain backward and that's one of the challenges with putting people in power that aren't necessarily educated enough to understand growth and understand you know the idea of moving forward and development you know they will bring you back to where they are they will bring you back to where they were I wouldn't be surprised if if this his bar commander is well educated I wouldn't be surprised I will I wouldn't because what's that saying about you can take the the village out of a manor you can take that there's a proverb about like you know in that light so I won't actually be surprised if he is educated but he just shows you the extent of what fanatism can do to a person um let's take a break here and we'll return to join Mr Zickel EO talk for Off The Press