Popular TikTok user who claims to be head of prostitutes sent for mental evaluation

A Kano State Shari’a Court on Tuesday ordered that a popular user of TikTok in Kano State, Murja Kunya, be taken to a government hospital for a mental evaluation.

The defendant, who lives at Tishama Hotoro Quarters, Kano, Kano State is standing trial on a three-count charge.

These are inciting public disturbance, belonging to a criminal gang and criminal intimidation.

Delivering a ruling, the Judge, Malam Nura Yusuf-Ahmad, ordered that the defendant be taken to public hospital to ascertain her mental health due to suspected drug influence.

Yusuf-Ahmad held: “The defendant’s previous appearance shows she is allegedly not in a sound state of mind due to suspected drug influence.

“Hisbah board should be updating the court from time to time on her well-being for three months.”

Yusuf-Ahmad adjourned the matter until May for hearing.

Earlier, the Prosecution Counsel, Aliyu Abideen, said the Kano State Hisbah Board arrested the defendant after receiving several complaints from members of the public.

Abideen alleged that the defendant usually terrorises Tishama Hotoro Quarters, Kano by bringing bad boys at midnight and also disturbs the area by inciting disturbance and using social media to disturb members of the public.

He said: “The defendant in one of her videos on Tiktok, which went viral, said she is the leader of all prostitutes in the city.”

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The defendant, however, denied committing the offence.

According to the prosecutor, the offence contravened section 341, 275 and 227 of Kano State Shari’a Law.