Anger in Kano State as Hisbah police destroys 240,000 bottles of beer

It was a scene of confusion and bottled up anger in Kano State recently when some overzealous policemen bent on enforcing Islamic law smashed and destroyed over 240,000 bottles of beer, in what many believed was a 'smokescreen' crackdown on behaviour seen as anti Islam in the state. A source told SHOWBIZPLUS that the bottles were seized from trucks coming into the city in the last couple of weeks by officials of Hisbah, which regularly enforces the strict Islamic law (Sharia) in governor Kwakwanso's troubled state.
Another report from AFP stated that Sharia enforcers (Hisbah) destroyed over 240,000 bottles of beer along with over 8,000 litres of a local brew called Burukutu.