– Kano CP cited order from Abuja to banish me to Nasarawa– Ex-emir seeks right to live in Kano, leaves Abuja for LagosLamido Sanusi says his dethronement as Emir of Kano is unjustifiable but won’t tak
e legal action against the Kano State Government.
Sanusi, who said he was denied fair hearing in the process leading to his deposition, claimed his arrest order, banishment from Kano and subsequent detention in Awe, Nasarawa State, came from Abuja. Sanusi stated these in the suit he filed on Thursday to challenge his detention and confinement in Awe.
He applied that his client be freed from the detention and allowed to move about in Nigeria apart from Kano in the interim.Justice Chikere granted the application, saying, “An interim order is hereby made releasing the applicant from the detention and or confinement of the respondents and restoring the applicant’s rights to human dignity, personal liberty, freedom of association and movement in Nigeria, pending the hearing and determination of the applicant’s originating summons.
In his suit, Sanusi said he “is being subjected to inhumane treatment and discrimination of all sorts”. He said Sanusi informed the CP of his intention to fly with his family members on an aircraft sent to Kano by a friend, but his request was rebuffed by the police chief. “The said the Commissioner of Police, along with other officers under the command of the respondents, harassed and rushed the applicant out of the Emir Palace, Kano, without letting him take any personal belongings and personal effects, along with him as they took him into their waiting vehicles.
Sanusi’s suit contained 14 prayers, one of which is an order directing the respondents to pay him N50m “as damages for the unlawful and unconstitutional arrest and detention”. When contacted by one of our correspondents on Friday, the spokesperson for the AGF, Dr. Umar Gwandu, said he could not respond to the Sanusi’s allegation contained in his suit until the minister sees the court document.Meanwhile, Governor Nasir el-Rufai of Kaduna State, who offered Sanusi two appointments after his dethronement, said he could not leave the embattled monarch at this time. He added that Sanusi had been with him since he was a teenager and that he had never left him.
Fielding questions from journalists shortly after Friday’s Jumat prayer, he said, “As you know, the Federal High Court in Abuja today declared his detention illegal and unconstitutional and his banishment also in violation of the constitution. So, he is free. He said he could not offer him the position when he was emir because he should be attracting investment to Kano State but that as soon as he was available, he seized the opportunity to bring that value to Kaduna State.
Spokesman for the police in the state, ASP Ramhan Nansel, failed to return his calls. He did not reply to the SMS sent to him by our correspondent as of the time of filing this report.Meanwhile, el-Rufai, who went from Abuja to Awe town by road, met Sanusi in high spirits, demonstrating his usual calm, poise and regal bearing amid what had befallen him in the past four days.
Olanipekun said the school was saddened by the “sudden ill-motive dethronement” of the monarch, who is the Chancellor of the university.
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