17 vendors were detained by the Kano State Private Health Institutions Management Agency (PHIMA) for using foul language when promoting traditional remedies in the city of Kano. In a statement provided to reporters in Kano on Monday, Mr. Abba Dalha, the agency’s public relations officer, revealed this. According to Dalha, ten of the arrested vendors used wheelbarrows to advertise traditional remedies, while seven used microphones fixed on cars. “PHIMA established a taskforce to clean up the state’s traditional medicine sector. Liberating the Kano people from the threat of widespread traditional medicine hawking using foul language was one of the taskforce’s mandates.
