The Emir of Kano, Mallam Sanusi Lamido, has yet to move into his palace more than 24 hours after he received his appointment letter and staff of office.
As of 8.02pm on Tuesday, the palace was still under lock and key. The presence of policemen deployed there on Sunday to keep away protesting youths was also still noticeable.
Under normal circumstances, Sanusi would have after receiving the staff of office resumed his royal duties at the palace as has been the tradition for over 1,000 years.
However, due to the security situation occasioned by the protests that followed his appointment, the royal father was said to have heeded security advice to lay low for now.
On Tuesday, he continued to perform his official functions at the Kano State Government House by receiving important visitors that included the Edo State Governor Adams Oshiomhole, his Imo State counterpart, Rochas Okorocha, and business mogul, Aliko Dangote.
Sanusi also received the four Kano kingmakers, who presented him with his traditional regalia and instrument of office ahead of his coronation .
The regalia comprises the twin spear or sword (Lagwayen masu), a Dabo hat, a pair of ostrich plumage shoes. He was also given a copy of the Holy Qur’an.
He will adorn the regalia on the day of coronation, which will be held at the emir’s palace at a date to be announced later.
The Chairman of the kingmakers and the Madakin Kano, Alhaji Yusuf Ibrahim, did the presentation.
The items handed over to him were the same used by the 2nd Fulani Emir of Kano, Ibrahim Dabo, who was a close confidant and brother of the founder of the Sokoto Caliphate, Usman Danfodio, in 1804.
Officials of the state government however confided in one of our correspondents that plans had reached an advanced stage to relocate the Emir to one of the Emirate’s Guest Palaces close to the government house.
However, life is gradually returning to normal in the city as residents who were hitherto indoors have begun to go out for their business.
An early morning drizzle which lasted for a little over two hours, gave way to clear whether which encouraged business owners to open their offices.
The Public Relations Officer, Kano State Police Command, Magaji Majia, urged parents and guardians to ensure that their children and wards did not join others to threaten the peace of the city.
“The city is calm and quiet as we have no record of security breach today,” he told journalists.
There were speculations in the city on Tuesday that President Goodluck Jonathan was due to visit the state on Tuesday to condole with the family of the late emir, Alhaji Ado Bayero.
A helicopter belonging to the Nigerian Air force hovered round Kano for most part of the day while Armoured Personnel Carriers were stationed in strategic locations in the city.
The President will however visit Kano on Wednesday (today).
Congratulations Sanusi, once rejected and now accepted. If the post belongs to you, then no one can stop you not even the president.
ReplyDeleteWhat is your own definition of acceptance, we are demonstrating because we don’t want him. The Governor imposed him on us because of his selfish interest. We don’t want him to bring bad luck on our kingdom. Our Emir should stand above dirty party politics and must be a respected Emir, above all he must be a person of reputable character, Sansui lacks those aforementioned qualities. How do you want us to feel when local and international Medias refer to our Emir as the sacked Central bank Governor?
DeleteIs Lamido Sanusi Lamido the first Emir that there has been protests against? No. Did not the same happen to the previous Emir? This seems to now become the tradition in Kano, violent protests at the naming of a new Emir.
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ReplyDeleteI have been wondering: what's all the fuss about the ex-governor of the CBN, Sanusi Lamido Sanusi (SLS), becoming an 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.
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Deleteif he is the rightful emir let him be pls.
ReplyDelete@ EL MATOSKY: U 're spritually blind, deaf $ dumb that is why u commented that way. Ur comment is very inciting $ with a high sense of ignorance,a comment capable degenerating our fragile peace as muslims $ christians .Allah (SWA) is not a human being that u reffered him as a man. May Allah (SWA) guide u.
ReplyDeleteWhere was your so called prince when the son of a fisherman became his president? Just imagine that GEJ's is a prince, he would have ruled the world. I hail you GEJ
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