Kano Speaks On Plan To Stop Women Driving

Kano state government has described as untrue a trending story on social media platforms on a purported plan to officially disallow women regardless of any faith from getting behind the wheel.

The Kano state commissioner for Information, Malam Muhammad Garba who made the clarification in a statement issued on Thursday, said the government had at no time contemplated on the matter.

He said the story, which could not be traced to any credible source, was nothing but the imaginary thinking of the authors.
“The trending story lacks any credibility and that is why it is wholly attributed to a source that cannot be substantiated,’’ it added.

Malam Garba pointed out that if at all there was such plan, that the Kano State Government does not have to be involved in any secretive meeting to decide on a critical issue that has to do its teeming populace.

The Kano State Information commissioner stated further that even Saudi Arabia which for decades had laws that sanctioned women from driving had, after all, lifted the ban in 2018.

He said it was interesting that some of the scholars quoted to have supported the alleged ban have already dissociated themselves from the story.

GreenWhiteGreen GWG reports that Kano State operates an Islamic legal code that may have given a misleading vent to the story.

Under the code things considered as Unislamic including alcohol are strictly prohibited and several times the states Hisbah Commission, a body which enforces Islamic law in the state has destroyed alocholic beverages drawing mixed reactions.

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