Beware of how you dress if you don't want to be arrested.

Those of you living in the northern states of Nigeria, beware
of how you dress if you don't want to arrested.
According to AfricanSpotLight,
Police who enforce in Nigeria's northern city of Kano
have arrested 150 people in the last week, including for
indecent dress, as part of a crackdown on immorality.
Some people in Nigeria's second city have been picked up
for sporting hair styles inspired by prominent international
football players, said Mohammed Yusuf Yola, spokesman
for Kano's sharia police, or Hisbah.
Others were thrown in jail and fined for wearing their
trousers too low on their waists, mimicking a style that
became prominent in the 1990s, partly through the
influence of some American hip hop artists.
The arrests have followed an order by Kano state
Governor Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso to cleanse the city of
immoral practices and the trend is set to continue in the
weeks ahead, said Hisbah Director-General Abba Sufi.
The Hisbah is a state police force funded by state
government and is not part of the federal police.
"We have arrested 150 men and women in the past week,
including prostitutes and their boyfriends, transvestites,
alcoholics and those engaged in indecent dressing in
contravention of the sharia legal code," Yola told AFP.
Religion has repeatedly been used as a political issue in
Kano and the governor, seen as a moderate, has been
accused by rivals of lacking commitment to sharia's
guidelines.
Yola insisted the operation was launched to reverse
disturbing trends in the city of some five million people
and is targeting people of various faiths.
"Those arrested include Muslims and non-Muslims and we
treat them equally because this is about morality," he said.
Kano, like the rest of northern Nigeria, is majority
Muslim, but the city has a sizeable Christian minority.
Some of those arrested have been released after paying
fines ranging from 10,000 naira ($63, 46 euros) to 15,000
naira, Yola said.
"Those who could not afford the fine are being kept in
prison," he added, but he would not specify the number of
people currently being held.
At the restoration of civilian rule in 1999, 12 northern
states, including Kano, formally adopted sharia, but the
Islamic legal system has been unevenly applied. The
Hisbah was formed in 2001, largely to enforce sharia, but
the force has other duties, including some community
development work and alternative dispute resolution.
The southern half of Nigeria, Africa's most populous
country, is mostly Christian.