Daga: Zakariyya Adam Jigirya
Kano State Roads Traffic Agency KAROTA today handed over three trucks of Liquor(beer) worth millions of naira to Kano State Hisba Command for onward destruction.
The trailers containing Four Hundred and Ten Cartons of Beer were impounded by the KAROTA Personnel on night patrol along major streets in Kano Metropolis.
Handing over the Beer trucks to the Commander General of Hisba, the Managing Director of KAROTA Hon Faisal Mahmud Kabir said the vehicles contained 4,920 bottles of beer meant to be off-loaded at different locations in Kano Metropolis.
The Managing Director represented by the KAROTA Director Administration and General Services, Alh Mahmud Haido said impounding the trucks was part of KAROTA’s responsibilities to arrest any suspicious goods playing the streets in Kano and reporting the suspected culprits to appreciate security agencies.
Alh Mahmud Haido assured that KAROTA would continue to remain vigilant in checking all intoxicants that could be harmful to the health of the citizens.
Receiving the impounded Beer trucks, the Commander General of Kano State Hiba Command, Sheik Aminu Ibrahim Daurawa commended KAROTA personnel for their vigilance and promised that due process would be followed before the final destruction of the impounded Beer Cartons.
Sheik Aminu Ibrahim Daurawa represented by the Head of the Intoxicants Unit of Hisba Command, CSH Sani Nasidi Uba Rimo pledged that the Command would continue to collaborate with KAROTA in checking of such prohibited goods being snuggled into the state capital.
He then prayed Almighty Allah to reward the management of KAROTA and its personnel who impounded the Beer trucks.
Signed:
Abubakar Ibrahim Sharada PRO KAROTA Kano State.
