Sokoto Hisbah denies imposing restrictions on Christian worship

The Sokoto State Hisbah Board has denied claims that it imposed restrictions connected Christian worship and practices successful the state.

According to the board, it has nary ineligible authorization to modulate however Christians behaviour their spiritual activities.

The board’s commandant, Dr Usman Abdullahi Jatau, made this known successful a connection issued on Saturday in Sokoto.

The clarification followed societal media claims alleging that the committee was interfering with Christian worship successful Sokoto.

The allegations, circulated by a blogger identified arsenic @radical.okoja.bia and others, claimed that mixed gatherings of men and women were prohibited successful churches and that Christian worship services were required to beryllium separated by gender.

The claims besides alleged that pastors could not beryllium with their wives during religion services and linked the expected restrictions to an alleged program to Islamise Nigeria.

However, Jatau dismissed the allegations arsenic mendacious and misleading, saying they did not bespeak the instrumentality establishing the Hisbah Board oregon its existent activities.

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