- Court also bars him from public events including weddings
Kano State High Court presided by Justice Aisha Mahmud has ordered the police to arrest a popular Hausa musician, Ado Isa Gwanja.
The court also ordered Gwanja to henceforth submit his music to the State Film and Videos Censorship Board for
approval.
Moreover, the court further prohibited Gwanja from performing at public events such as wedding ceremonies until the substantive suit is resolved.
The court ruling is an affirmation of an earlier ruling by an Upper Sharia Court Bichi, which ordered the musician’s arrest last year.
A private legal practitioner, Barrister Badamasi Gandu, on behalf of Kano Ulamas Forum, had dragged Ado Gwanja and six others before the Upper Sharia Court, seeking leave of the court to arrest and investigate the activities of the defendants because “most of the things they did were against the moral teachings of Islam and cultural values of Kano State.”
Gwanja and others, however, rushed to the Kano State High Court seeking a restraining order against their arrest.
The court subsequently granted an interim order stopping the Police from effecting his arrest pending a hearing in his fundamental rights enforcement application.