Sheikh Aminu Daurawa says he would return to his duty post as Commander-General of the Kano State Hisbah Board.
The cleric announced this during a courtesy visit to Kano State Governor Abba Kabir Yusuf at the Government House on Monday.
Daurawa was accompanied to the Government House by some select clerics in Kano.
He resigned as Hisbah chief on Friday hours Governor Yusuf reprimanded the morality police of conducting its business without recourse to extant rules of engagement.
The cleric said Abba’s comments was discouraging to him despite his efforts to promote societal morality during his tenure at Hisbah.
He said: “Currently, I’m in Kaduna State, meeting with lawmakers led by the Speaker to discuss implementing a mandatory pre-marital health check in Kano, similar to other Nigerian states.
“However, I’ve encountered discouraging comments from Kano, despite my efforts at Hisbah to promote societal morality.
“I’ve actively engaged with Kannywood and TikTok celebrities, offering guidance and even providing financial assistance to some TikTokers. I even extended advice to Murja too.
“Unfortunately, those who disregarded our guidance faced consequences.
“But I am saying sorry to the Excellency Governor for being angry, I am sorry to say I have resigned from the position he gave me in Hisbah, I wish him the best in his leadership.”
Governor Yusuf said Hisbah’s ‘operation kau da badala’ fighting immorality and enforcing sanity in accordance with Islamic values needed to be reviewed.
The governor while speaking at a meeting with Imams at Kano Government House on Thursday said “I saw a video that disrupted my peace. You parked cars and went to where males and females were doing unholy things. They were picked up and beaten with bamboo sticks while they took to their heels. They were being packed up inside the vehicle like animals. This, I think is a big mistake for you to hold an adult and throw him like a goat into a Hilux.
“Hisbah is a board that we take in high esteem and bring in God fearing people that we know they can deliver given the people’s mandate in line with what is right.
“The meaning of establishing agencies like this is to do the right thing and also advise us and all stakeholders on the right thing to do.
“We want the right thing to be done, what if, God forbids someone got injured on his spinal cord, he is finished. I saw a video where students’ rooms were raided, beaten and thrown into the vehicle.”
In an interview with BBC Hausa after the meeting, Sheikh Daurawa said he was returning following reconciliation with Governor Yusuf.
He said:”I have accepted the reconciliation and would return to work and continue from where I stopped.”
Sheikh Daurawa announced that “there would be expansion in the mandate of the agency henceforth.
“An institute known as Hisbah Training Center would be set up where courses leading to the award of the National Certificate of Education (NCE), diploma and degree would be undertaken.
“The center shall teach operatives of the agency how to effectively carry out their duties more than they were used to.”
The Hisbah CG said “a department to be responsible for research on the activities of the agency as well as recommendations from the appropriate quarters would be established.”
