Former Central Bank of Nigeria Governor, Lamido Sanusi, has been turbaned as the new Emir of Kano. The turbaning, which took place on Monday in Kano, was held amid heavy Police presence.
The policemen condoned off the area, restricting the movement of people from the venue of the installation.
Sanusi was announced the 14th Emir of Kano to replace the late Ado Bayero, who died on Friday, at the age of 83. Click to signup for FREE news updates, latest information and hottest gists everyday
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So there can be a tight security for someone not loyal to GEJ? Who provided this tight security? Was it GEJ OR KWANKWASO? Why was there no such security when Ado Bayero was alive? So state govts can provide tight security. Why then are we blaming GEJ whenever there is insecurity in the north rather than the state govt yet we reject total state of emergency? NOTHERN POLITICS!!!
ReplyDeleteTight security against innocent kano people not
Deleteboko harram, I belive Mr president don't really want the problem of insecurity in the north to stop for now, knowing well that they will not vote for him come 2015.
The more the fight the better his chance to win come 2015
Olodo, you can not percieve
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ReplyDeleteAPC, as a party is bothered that tight security was provided to ensure a hitch-free coronation exercise? What's wrongful about that? Should the security have been porous to make way for security breach. Why has APC most unfortunately chosen to politicize this coronation? Was it necessary? Why was APC more insistent on Sanusi Lamido Sanusi (SLS) becoming the Emir than SLS himself. Had not SLS even gone online to tweet that the late Emir's first son had been chosen as the Emir, pending official announcement? Why did APC chieftains have to rig the selection, even when a choice had been made? Was it fair to all concerned? Would it build good will, better friendship and peace within the Emirate?
I have been wondering: what's all the fuss about the ex-governor of the CBN, Sanusi Lamido Sanusi (SLS), being the Emir of Kano? In fact, ignorant APC chieftains and members have been gloating over Sanusi's ascendancy to the Emirship throne of his grandfather. Someone even said that it's like scoring a penalty kick against the sitting President and Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. I'm taken aback; I do not understand. A goal? How? I cannot know. How is the president disadvantaged by Sanusi's ascendancy as a mere Emir, an Emir without immunity, without constitutionally defined powers, an Emir who has no power over me if I find myself in Kano any day. What power has Emir Sanusi got to square up or be compared with the president of Nigeria?
To think that Emir SLS is capable of making the president to lose his sleep is the height of ignorance. The Bible must have been referring to people who weirdly think this way when it said that "My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge." (Hosea 4:6 KJV). It takes the most ignorant, ignoble and dumbest man on earth to think that way.
What are the powers of Emir Sanusi? During and after the colonial period, the emirate powers were steadily reduced. The constitutional powers of the emir were further whittled down by the military regimes. The Native Authority Police and Prisons Department under them was abolished; the emir's judicial council was supplanted by another body, and successive local government reforms (in 1968, 1972, and 1976) reduced the powers of the emir, making him legally inferior to the council chairman. Under the 1999 constitution of Nigeria, an Emir has no recognized powers.
In a way, Emir SLS, who functions at the pleasure of his governor, is constitutionally and legally under his council chairman, who is the chief security officer in the Local Government Area. Emir Sanusi, like other northern Nigeria emirs, has no control over mechanisms of the state such as the police, taxation or criminal justice.
Emir Sanusi only wields considerable power as the top Islamic figure in Kano, which power enables him to choose the imams of the main mosques in Kano. As Emir, he is expected to step in at moments of crisis to mediate inter-religious violence or land disputes before they spiral out of control. He is also expected to play an important role in warding off religious fundamentalism, a role we all know that the Sudan-trained and radicalized Sanusi is most unlikely to play.
On the whole and in summary, Emir Sanusi's exercise of power or authority is strictly a function of how much the people choose to respect him; it's non-statutory. And as an Emir, he poses no threat to the president or to his party.
Educated full. Not a fool though. Arse soul! Go back to school. It's for your own good.
DeleteI guess you are a member of PDP right. PDP o APC o, u guys are all the same wicked bunch.
DeleteU have spoken well Nwaeze cos i was equally wondering the same myself. The govt funds the traditional institutions hence they are under the whole arms of govt. so i wonder why the while publicity by APC. To be sincere, APC is just a national distraction that i cant wait to get rid off my mind come 2015. For once, i see PDP as saints.......gosh!
DeleteWhy was the turbaning done in Govt house, is that the tradition?. I need to know o please
ReplyDeleteUna go soon tire, I see reasons with u bro,so d idiots can provide tit security. I bet u dat d end will soon cum
ReplyDeleteYou spelt idiot with an e. You should instead spell it like this. I am an idiot. That's better.
DeleteAdam.. you only insult people. Do not you have any defence to what they are saying? Hope you are not just like the idiots referred in the previous comments? You know quite well Sanusi is a rejected Emir by both Kano people and majority of Nigeria, a puppet or studge created by Kwakwanso and his apc for purpose of election. How could somebody with corruption and sponsoring of bokoharam hanging over his head be made an emir. The north is calling GEJ to bring back the girls. You should ask Shettima, Kwankwnso, Sanusi and apc to bring back the girls. Kwakwanso could not protect the emir Ado Bayero, but could provide tight security for turbaning as a person of questionable character. I am begining to think there are more to the death of Ado Bayero. Desperate APC can do anything, as it has been an approach we have commonly seen implemented, to get the power. May God give the children and people of Kano the grace to bear the loss of Ado Bayero. But for Sanusi as Emir may grant them divine protection and security. This development looks like a bad omen.
DeleteNwaeze & co,u can not compare ur ways of life with that of Hausas and Fulanis,These people respect their leaders and they are full of wisdom but u igbos can not rule urselves,u pple are the worst in the Nigerian history.You lack wisdom.What u know is to make noise and nothing more.U will know the implication come 2015,May God spare our lives.
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