Dethroned Emir of
Kano, Muhammadu Sanusi II has dragged the Inspector General of Police, IGP, and
the Director-General, Department of State Service, DSS, to court over his
continued confinement in Nasarawa State.
Sanusi’s legal team
filed a suit at the Federal High Court, Abuja on Thursday, seeking his release
from banishment.
The former Emir’s
legal team is led by Lateef Fagbemi (SAN), and the suit number is
FHC/ABJ/CS/357/2020.
Sanusi was sacked
from the throne on Monday, with a new emir, Aminu Ado Bayero already installed.
He was immediately
placed under house arrest by armed policemen and DSS officials, who later
whisked him away to Awe in Nasarawa State where he had been confined in a
bungalow.
The Kano State
Government had denied banishing the deposed emir.
Ibrahim Muktar, Kano
State Attorney General, who spoke on Channels Television on Wednesday, said there
was nowhere the Secretary to the State Government ever mentioned that the
dethroned emir had been banished.
“You see, If you
listen to the Secretary to the State Government when he was addressing the
press on the issue of the removal of the emir from office, there was nowhere he
said the emir was even banished from Kano State.
“So, the decision of
the government was (that) the emir … as of Monday was removed from office and a
new emir was appointed. The issue of banishment was not part of the decision of
the Kano State Government,” he said.
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