KANO UNDER PANIC AS HIV SCOURGE SPREADS THE TOWN

A report by indicating that 44 out of 93 commercial sex workers arrested last Sunday at Kwanar Gafan are infected with deadly HIV/AIDS, is eliciting fears of massive spread of the scourge in the area –not only among clients but among innocent housewives across Kano state. If a single market could harbour as much as 44 HIV infected ‘prostitutes’, how many unsuspecting clients could have contracted the virus from the victims? What would be the fate of innocent housewives who might have contracted the disease through unfaithful partners?.


MEANWHILE:

Over 40 officials of the Kano State Hisbah Board were injured when their team came under attack by hoodlums protesting the arrest of 80 suspected prostitutes at Kwanar Gafan in Garun Malam Local Government area of Kano State.

The attack happened after the Shari’ah police had carried out a massive raid for suspected prostitutes at the popular tomato market on Sunday afternoon.

It was gathered that hundreds of thugs, believed to be sympathizers of the arrestedwomen, ambushed dozens of vehicles coveying the Hisbah officials and the suspectsback to Kano city, pelting them with stones and beer bottles, before attacking them with sticks.