Contrary to rumours making the rounds that a popular Tiktok star, Murja Kunya, has fled the prison, spokesman for Kano correctional center, Musbahu Kofar Nassarawa, has said that she was released following a court order.
Mr Kofar Nassarawa told DAILY NIGERIAN that she was released since Thursday.
“It was a court that brought her to us for remand, and it was the same court that ordered us to release her,” he said
DAILY NIGERIAN reports that a shari’a court in Kwana Hudu area of Kano metropolis had ordered the remand of the controversial TikTok sensation at the Kurmawa correctional facility in Kano.
Earlier on Tuesday, the Kano State Hisbah Board arrested the celebrity after receiving complaints from her neighbours over her alleged immoral behaviours that are liable to corrupt the morals the neighbourhood and incite disturbance.
Upon arraignment before the court, she was accused of constituting herself into a public nuisance, indecency, and attempt to recruit young girls into prostitution.
When the charges were read to her, she denied the charges.
The judge consequently ordered that she be remanded in prison custody until February 21, 2024
