Nigerian Actress Sentenced to 6 Months for uploading sexual content on Social Media

Kannywood actress Sadiya Haruna has been sentenced to six months in an Islamic school by a Sharia court.

Blogger and Kannywood actress, Sadiya Haruna | Source: guardian.ng

Kannywood is the name used to describe movie industry in the Northern part of Nigeria.

Haruna who is also a blogger was accused of uploading sexual content on her social media pages.

She was arrested on Friday by the Head of Surveillance Department of Kano State Hisbah Board, Malam Aliyu Usman.

The Kano State Hisbah Corps is a religious police force in Nigeria's Kano state responsible for the enforcement of Sharia.

The court sitting in Kano sentenced the movie star to the Islamic school for “uploading sexual contents on her social media handles.”

She was alleged to have consistently posted indecent videos in which she was dancing seductively and making sexual comments on her social media handles and YouTube channel.

The actress pleaded guilty to the one court charge of obscenity and indecent act, which contradicts section 355 of Penal Code Law 2000.

The presiding judge, Justice Ali Jibril Danzaki thereafter convicted her and ordered her to be attending a Darul Hadith Islamiyya session at Tudun Yola Quarters for a period of six months as the sentencing for her offence.

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