The Hisbah Command of the Bauchi State Shariah Commission has arrested a 76 year old man identified as Bala Muhammad, who appeared in multiple pictures with different women alleged to be his ex-girlfriends on social media.
The man had been trending since appearing in about 50 images with different women, some showing their cleavages. The photos caused an uproar among married men and women relatives of Bala and the women that appeared in his pictures.
The images have sparked reactions on social media platforms with many urging married men in Bauchi to guard their wives against Bala Muhammad,
In an intetview with newsmen in Bauchi Bala Mohammed confirmed the trending images, saying that the pictures were taken between six and 20 years ago when most of the ladies were unmarried. He sought forgiveness from the women and their respective families.
The 76 year-old man who said he has been unmarried throughout his life and has no children, is from Dass Local Government Area of Bauchi State but resides in the state capital.
He said that his brother drawn his attention to the online pictures with his babes before he was arrested and brought to Hisbah.
Bala said he retired from the Bauchi State Civil Service as a Director of administration and he put the ladies pictures on social media just for pleasure because they were his old friends who visited him in his house and the pictures were taken in his house and the women came from within and outside the state.
The Bauchi State Shariah Commission Commissioner in charge of Hisba Barrister Aminu Balarabe Isah said the Commission has received several complaints against the man from the families of the women, his relatives and the commission went to arrest him in his house to investigate the matter but they didnt get him.
He was later arrested by the police, “when we needed to interrogate him, we requested the police to release him to us for our investigation and police released him to us and after we finished our investigation we will take him back to the police.”
