“Police in Kano, Nabahani Usman has said that adults seen eating in public during Ramadan would be arrested.” But this is not a practice unique to the mostly unknown Kano, Nigeria. Across sharia adherent countries, eating in public during Ramadan is prohibited and thus punishable. Many of these countries give infidel visitors a warning first.
Interpreting sharia rules for Ramadan have also caused flareups among migrants in the EU. For example, a migrant shelter in Germany was burned down over clashes between Muslim refugees over Ramadan meals. Another shelter in Dresden erupted in a riot between Muslim refugees and police for a similar reason. In fact “there have been repeated outbreaks of violence at the refugee shelters,” of which police say are linked to Ramadan.
Dar al-Ifta–“the premier institute to represent Islam and the international flagship for Islamic legal research” declared that any Islamic eating in public during Ramadan “is an attack on Islam”. The institute explained that eating in public “is an act of openly committing a sin, which is prohibited and insulting to public decency in Muslim countries.”
“Shariah police in Kano to arrest adults who eat in public during Ramadan”, by Byo wahab, Pulse (Thanks to The Religion of Peace), May 4, 2019:
The Commander-General of Hisbah, the Shariah Police in Kano, Nabahani Usman has said that adults seen eating in public during Ramadan would be arrested.
Usman said arrested people would be released when they produce an exemption letter from a medical doctor or a proof of chronic ulcer.
Speaking to the British Broadcasting Corporation about the development, the Shariah police boss said arrested persons would be released with a warning not to eat in public anymore upon provision of evidence.
Usman said Ramadan is a special month for Muslims and anybody that practises Islam must fast during the month.
He said, “We do this kind of operation yearly and we will continue it this year. The aim is to get every Muslim to respect the month of Ramadan. Even if a doctor says you should not fast, that does not mean you should eat in public while others are fasting.
“So any Muslim that we apprehend eating outside, our men will arrest and bring the person to our office unless he can show proof that a doctor asked him not to fast.”….