Zamfara Hisbah arrests woman over alleged witchcraft activities

The Zamfara State Hisbah Commission has arrested a pistillate named Khadija Abdullah successful the Gadar Baga country of Gusau implicit allegations of engaging successful witchcraft-related activities.
According to a connection issued connected Tuesday by the commission’s Public Relations Officer, Umar Haruna Tsafe, the apprehension followed complaints from assemblage leaders who accused the fishy of carrying retired alleged spiritual practices astatine her residence, prompting operatives to behaviour a raid.

The Director of Operations of the commission, Lawal Abubakar Maradun, said the fishy admitted during interrogation that she utilized definite perfumes and claimed to beryllium possessed by spirits, aft which she would recite prayers into h2o and springiness it to radical arsenic a signifier of treatment.

The committee besides said different woman, identified arsenic Asiya Lawal, who was recovered astatine the residence, told officials she had visited the location seeking attraction for what she described arsenic a spiritual ailment.

A nonmigratory of the country was quoted by the committee arsenic saying that the location had go a fashionable destination for radical seeking accepted oregon spiritual remedies some during the time and astatine night.

The Chairman of the Zamfara State Hisbah Commission, Sheikh Umar Hassan Gusau, directed that investigations beryllium intensified to found the au...