Kano Gov’t Orders Eviction Of Bayero From Mini Palace, Demolition Of Building
Insists Sanusi II remains Kano emir
The Kano State government has directed the State’s Commissioner of Police to evict the 15th Emir of Kano, Aminu Ado Bayero, from the mini Palace in Nasarawa area of the Kano metropolis with immediate effect.
The state government said the property where the deposed Emir is hibernating belongs to the government and it has be pencilled down for renovation, including demolition of a part of its wall.
Dederi stated, “The Kano State Government has ordered the Commissioner of Police to evict the 15th Emir Aminu Ado Bayero from the Nasarawa mini Palace as the palace belongs to the state government.”
The development followed a significant ruling by the Federal High Court in Kano earlier on Thursday, delivered by Justice A.M. Liman.
The State government maintained that the ruling confirmed that the new Kano Emirate Law 2024 remains intact, while only actions taken post-assent to the Bill, in defiance of a prior court order, were nullified.
The statement by Dederi partly read: “By the ruling of the Court, it has unequivocally reaffirmed the validity of the law passed by Kano State House of Assembly and assented to by the Executive Governor of Kano State on Thursday 23rd May, 2024 by
5:10pm. This part of the judgement is very fundamental to the entire matter. Further implication of the ruling is that all actions done by the Government before the emergence of the interim order of the honorable Court, are equally validated.
“This means that, the abolishing of the Five emirates created in 2019 is validated and the deposition of the Five emirs is also sustained by the Federal High Court.
“By implication, this means that Muhammadu Sanusi Il remains the emir of Kano.the signing of the law and the
reinstatement of His Highness, Emir Muhamamd Sunusi Il were done on 23rd May, 2024 before the emergence of the Interim Order which was served on us on Monday 27th May, 2024.
“Following this Court’s ruling, Kano State government has directed the State Commissioner of Police to remove the deposed emir of the 8 metropolitan local governments from the Government property where he is trespassing as Government has already made arrangements for the general reconstruction and renovation of the property including the demolishing and reconstruction of the dilapidated wall fence with immediate effect.”
Justice Liman, in his ruling, granted a stay of proceedings and transferred the case to Justice Amobeda of Court 3, thereby preventing any immediate enforcement of the ruling until the appeal is resolved.
Federal court orders the restoration of the repealled Kano Emirate Council Law 2019 that created Bichi, Karaye, Rano and Gaya emirates.
A Federal High Court in Kano on Thursday nullified the Kano Emirate Council (Amendment No. 2) Law, 2024, that scrapped four of the five emirates councils of the state last month and removed all the five emirs, including Aminu Ado-Bayero of Kano.
Governor Abba Yusuf, on 23 May, signed the bill that repealed the State Emirate Council Law 2019. The Kano State House of Assembly had earlier on the same day passed the bill that also dissolved the four emirates created by former Governor Abdullahi Ganduje.
Mr Yusuf immediately reinstated Mr Sanusi the following day as the sole emir of Kano State.
But a title holder in Kano emirate, Aminu Dan’agundi, challenged the government’s decision at the Federal High Court.
The judge, Abdullahi Liman, in suit number FHC/KN/CS/182/2024, had immediately ordered the state government and the other parties involved to stop the implementation of the new emirate law pending the hearing of the substantive case.
On Thursday, Mr Liman, who appeared at the court room at exactly at 3:08 p.m, apologised for coming late.
In about an hour ruling, the judge ruled that the appointment of Mr Sanusi aa Kano emir was null and void as the government failed to obey the court order restraining it from taking further actions on the new emirate council law.
The judge described Governor Yusuf’s speech during the presentation of the reappointment letter to Mr Sanusi as a road to anarchy, saying that if a court order cannot be respected despite evidence of service then the government was heading to the explosive side.
He ordered the restoration of the Kano Emirate Council Law 2019 that split Kano into five emirates of Kano, Bichi, Karaye, Rano and Gaya.
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