*Says Deposed Emir A Threat

A KANO State High Court, presided over by Justice Amina Adamu Aliyu, has ordered the Police to evict the deposed Emir of Kano, Alhaji Aminu Ado Bayero, from the palace he is currently occupying in the Nasarawa area of the state capital.

Justice Aliyu, who gave the order on Monday, May 27, also issued an interim injunction restraining Bayero and four other deposed emirs from parading themselves as such, pending the hearing and determination of a motion on notice filed by the applicants.

Following the passage of the Bill repealed the Kano Emirates Council Law by the state House of Assembly, which split Kano into five emirates and its signing into law by Governor Abba Yusuf, the five emirs were deposed and the 14th Emir of Kano, Muhammadu Sanusi II, who was dethroned by immediate past governor of he state, Dr. Abdullahi Ganduje, was reinstated.

Those affected were Alhaji Aminu Ado Bayero (Kano); Alhaji Nasir Ado Bayero (Bichi); Alhaji Kabiru Muhammad Inuwa (Rano); Alhaji Ibrahim Abubakar II (Karaye) and Alhaji Aliyu Ibrahim Abdulkadir (Gaya).

While the other four emirs seem to have accepted their fate, Bayero, who was out of the city at the time, returned and headed straight to the palace in the Nasarawa area under security cover.

Recall also that on Friday, May24, Justice Mohammed Liman of the Federal High Court in Kano granted an order  restraining the Kano State Government from enforcing the new law, in a case filed by the Sarkin Dawaki Babba of the Kano Emirate, Aminu Agundi.

But the state government ignored the order and went ahead to reinstate Sanusi, with Yusuf threatening to report the Judge to the Nigeria Governors’ Forum (NGF) for granting the order while in the United States (US).

With its authority being challenged by Bayero’s return to the Nassarawa mini-palace, the governor ordered the arrest of the deposed monarch, but the Police authorities said they could only enforce the court order.

Ruling on an ex-parte application by Counsel to the applicants, Ibrahim Isa Wangida, Justice Aliyu issued the order restraining the deposed emirs from parading themselves as emirs.

Applicants in the case are the Attorney General of Kano State; Speaker of the state House of Assembly and the Kano State House of Assembly.

The respondents are the deposed emirs of Karaye, Gaya, Bichi, Rano and Kano; Inspector General of Police (IGP); Director of the Department of State Service; the Nigerian Army and the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC).

The court document, dated May 27, 2024, reads: “That order of interim injunction is hereby granted restraining the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th & 5th defendants, either by themselves, servants, privies and or any other persons or officers serving under them or acting in connection with any other person, from parading themselves as Emirs of Kano, Bichi, Gaya, Rano and Karaye, pending the hearing and determination of the motion on notice filed by the applicants.

“That an order is hereby granted to the extent that the Commissioner of Police, Kano State, should immediately take the palace of the Emir of Kano, situated, being and lying at State Road, Kano, and evict the 1 Defendant/Respondent from the said palace, pending the hearing and determination of the motion on notice, dated 24th May 2024.

“That an order of this honourable court is hereby granted restraining the 1st 2nd 3rd 4th & 5th Defendants from parading themselves as Emirs of Kano, Bichi, Gaya, Rano and Karaye in the interest of peace in Kano, pending the hearing and determination of the motion on notice.

“That an order is hereby made that 1-5th defendants be, through the office of the Commissioner Police, Kano State, who is to ensure immediate implementation of the order of the honourable  court in the interest of justice.”

Justice Aliyu fixed June 11, this year, for hearing of the motion on notice.