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Former Governor of Kano State, Abdullahi Umar Ganduje, has announced plans to establish a Hisbah-like voluntary organisation under the Ganduje Foundation.
The initiative aims to engage 12,000 personnel who were dismissed by the Kano State Hisbah Board. Ganduje, the immediate past National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), revealed this while receiving a report on the disengaged staff. He described their dismissal by the current administration as unjust.
The report was presented by the Director-General of the National Productivity Centre, Dr. Baffa Babba Dan-Agundi, who chaired the committee tasked with verifying the affected personnel. Dan-Agundi, who served as Director-General of the Kano Roads and Traffic Agency (KAROTA) during Ganduje’s tenure, confirmed that the committee had verified the identities and contacts of the dismissed workers.
“Your Excellency, this is a draft report of the 12,000 Hisbah personnel dismissed by the Kano State Government. We have verified their identities and contacts. All of them are ready to join you in this initiative,” Dan-Agundi said.
Ganduje responded that the proposed body would operate independently, without being a government agency.
“It will be known as Independent Hisbah. I know there are many others who will want to join aside from these 12,000. Soon, you will be given another mandate to recruit more people,” he said.
The event was attended by Ganduje’s former deputy and APC governorship candidate in the 2023 elections, Dr. Nasiru Yusuf Gawuna; his running mate, Murtala Sule Garo; Kano APC Chairman, Abdullahi Abbas; and the Managing Director of the Hadejia Jama’are River Basin Development Authority (HJRBDA), Rabiu Sulaiman Bichi, among others.
The proposed outfit is expected to be headed by Ganduje’s former Hisbah Commander-General, Sheikh Muhammad Harun Ibn Sina.
Ibn Sina explained that the organisation, to be called Khairun Nas, would function as a voluntary body with roles similar to Hisbah but without operating as a government agency.
“The 12,000 officers engaged during his tenure and later dismissed approached him for support. He suggested establishing an independent body—not a government agency—and set up a committee, co-chaired by Dan-Agundi and me, along with four others, to verify the personnel and their willingness to join,” Ibn Sina said.
He added that the body had not yet been formally established and stressed that it would be open to all interested individuals, beyond the dismissed personnel.
Regarding allowances, Ibn Sina said the outfit would be purely voluntary, though support from individuals or organisations could provide stipends.
He outlined the mandate of the proposed body to include “enjoining what is right and forbidding what is wrong, providing first aid, offering admonition, and assisting people in need.”
