Kano denies trending story on women driving ban

Kano state government has described as fallacious a trending story on social media platforms on a purported plan to officially disallow women regardless of any faith from getting behind the wheel.

Solacebase reports that a story on Wednesday went viral on social media with the title ‘’BILL TO BAN FEMALE DRIVING IN KANO UNDERWAY’’.

It said barring any unforeseen development, the Kano State Government in conjunction with the state’s Council of Ulama are planning to enact a law prohibiting women irrespective of any faith from driving vehicles In the state.

However, the state commissioner for Information, Malam Muhammad Garba who made the clarification in a statement issued on Thursday, said the government had at no time contemplate on the matter.

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The statement said the story, which could not be traced to any credible source, was nothing but the imaginary thinking of the authors.

“The trending story lacks any credibility and that is why it is wholly attributed to a source that cannot be substantiated,’’ it added.

According to the statement, Muhammad Garba pointed out that if at all there was such plan, the state government does not have to be involved in any secretive meeting to decide on a critical issue that has to do its teeming populace.

‘’The commissioner stated further that even Saudi Arabia which for decades had laws that sanctioned women from driving has, after all, lifted the ban in 2018.’’

‘’He said it was interesting that some of the scholars quoted to have supported the alleged ban have already dissociated themselves from the story.’’