A federal high Court in Abuja has ordered the immediate
release of Muhammadu Sanusi II, deposed emir of Kano, from confinement.
Sanusi had filed a suit against the inspector-general of
police, the director-general of the Department of State Services over his
detention after his dethronement on Monday.
Other respondents in the suit are Abubakar Malami,
attorney-general of the federation (AGF), and Ibrahim Muktar, the AGF of Kano
state.
Anwuli Chikere, the judge, made the order in an ex-parte
ruling on Friday after listening to Lateef Fagbemi, Sanusi’s lawyer, who made
the application.
“An interim order of this honourable court 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, (apart from Kano State) pending the hearing and
determination of the applicant’s originating summons,” the judge ruled.
When the case was called, Fagbemi said officers of the
police and the DSS had already thronged the premises of the former emir even
before the Kano state government pronounced his dethronement.
He asked the court to grant his reliefs on the grounds that
the health of the applicant is of serious concern — to which the court obliged.
He also added that his client has offered not to go to Kano
until the determination of the substantive case.
Zainab Sanusi, the applicant’s sister, and Khadija Sanusi,
his daughter, were in court to witness proceedings.
The case was adjourned till March 26.
After his dethronement, Sanusi was banished to Awe in
Nasarawa state though the Kano state government claimed he was not banished but
only relocated.
ganduje power end in kano,except the governor of nasarawa state is in alliance with ganduje,the only power that can restrict sanusi movement is in the president ,because the police and the soldiers are under the president
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