Who said the Saudis weren't great inventors?
This from an angry editorial in the Niger Delta Congress So the most reasonable thing to do now is to beg Ahmed Sani and his Sharia protagonists for mercy and forgiveness. There is nothing we can do now. I read that they have imported some amputation machines from abroad to facilitate the limbcutting show. Armchair critics of the strong man of Zamfara State should bury their heads in shame. Sokoto State has hired the man as a Sharia consultant with specialty in amputation of the hands of suspected petty thieves. His Excellency will go places. Who knows whether his Excellency, our dear Sani intends to extend his consultancy services to his brethren in the South? Why not if muslims ask for it? Even without asking for it, has it not dawned on these irreligious Southerners that the only thing they need to curb the high incidence of armed robbery in the South is Sharia? Even we need Sharia courts throughout Nigeria to dispense substantial justice approved by Quran, Sunah and Ijitihad of the Maliki School.
One evening we met the Director of Kano’s Hisba. Our host, a Muslim scholar of some note, explained, together with the Director, that the Hisba is an organization, like the Boy Scouts, that was set up to cover areas of public service not being adequately covered by the police, and was nothing to fear.
The next evening Christians told us that the Hisba was set up to enforce sharia. The benign interpretation of Hisba is for public consumption, to smooth the introduction of a parallel police force, they said. They added that soon after Zamfara State started cutting off people’s hands for stealing, Kano State bought hand amputation machines from Saudi Arabia. One man who had witnessed a hand amputation explained how a thief had tried to steal an air conditioner, and was caught by the security guard. “The guard immediately cut off the man’s hand, most painfully. I was so embarrassed.”
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