The alleged owner of the forbidden beverages, according to the Shari'a compliance board, barely avoided arrest while attempting to bribe its staff.
Acting Assistant Commander General of Intelligent Crimes Dispatch, Malam Fu'ad Dorayi, briefed reporters on the development on Wednesday and stated that the board will not back down in its fight against those who disobey state laws.
Four people were involved, including the driver of the large truck that carried more than 24,000 bottles of different beers, according to Dorayi.
"Others included the products' owner and two other people. After failing in his attempt to bribe us, the owner of the goods escaped. So he pretended to want to choose anything, and in doing so, he ran away.
"The driver complained at one point that something was wrong with the car, but we were able to catch him and two other people in the end."
Dorayi asked the locals to always report to the Hisbah Board any cars that they believed to be carrying suspicious goods, especially if they were traveling along roads like Kano/Zaria, Kano/Dayi Malumfashi, Kano/Katsina, Kano/Maiduguri, and Kano/Hadejia.
The Director General of the Board, Abba Sa'id Sufi, pledged to stay committed to the fight against smuggling beers into the state capital through neighboring states as he led officers around the confiscated drinks at the Hisbah headquarters.
He insisted that the state's Hisbah Corps has been active in enforcing the zero-tolerance policy against the smuggling of beer and other intoxicating drugs into Kano State through its borders with neighboring states.
Nonetheless, the DG Hisbah Board applauded the Corps' efforts in the state for working along with other interested parties to combat the smuggling of alcohol into the state.
2020 saw Hisbah seize and destroy more than a million alcohol bottles that were allegedly being smuggled into the city for more than N200 million.
To deter those smuggling alcohol drinks into Kano knowing the risk of the associated financial loss, a similar destruction of a huge cargo of confiscated drinks worth N100 million was also carried out in February 2022.
The Kano state government has passed a legislative act under the state Penal code of 2004 that forbids the sale and distribution of any alcoholic substances in the state, even though the Federal Republic of Nigeria's revised Constitution does not specifically prohibit the sale or consumption of alcohol.