The Inspector-General of Police, Mohammed Adamu, has asked the Federal High Court in Abuja to dismiss a suit filed by the deposed Emir of Kano, Lamido Sanusi, challenging his banishment.
In his preliminary objection, the IGP argued that the court lacked jurisdiction to hear the fundamental rights enforcement suit.
In the substantive suit, Sanusi, through his lead counsel, Lateef Fagbemi , contended that his banishment and subsequent house arrest violated his right to freedom of movement, among others. “It is crystal clear from all the processes filed by the applicant that the facts that gave rise to this case arose from Kano State, where the applicant was dethroned as the Emir and flown to Abuja enroute Nasarawa State.
But Sanusi, in a counter-affidavit, faulted the IGP’s contention insisting that his suit was not about his dethronement but his family’s forceful ejection from the palace and their banishment from Kano and subsequent confinement.
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