Court Orders the Release of Sanusi
The former Emir
of Kano, Muhammadu Sanusi II will soon get his freedom, this followed an order
by a Federal High Court sitting in Abuja which ordered the Kano State
Governor, Abdullahi Umaru Ganduji to immediately release from illegal
detention former emir .of Kano.
The Governor
Ganduje had deposed Sanusi and replaced him with Ado Bayero and banished him to
Nasarawa against the constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.
Muhammadu Sanusi is
challenging his illegal banishment to a community in Nasarawa State, arguing
that such restriction violated his constitutional rights guaranteed under
section 41 of the Nigerian constitution.
Section 41(1)
of the Nigerian constitution provides that ” Every citizen of Nigeria is
entitled to move freely throughout Nigeria and to reside in any part thereof,
and no citizen of Nigeria shall be expelled from Nigeria or refused entry
thereby or exit therefrom.The Court, presided over by Justice Anwuli Chikere
gave the order after hearing the prayers of Muhammadu Sanusi’s
counsel, , Lateef Fagbemi (SAN).
The order is
directed at the Inspector General of Police (IGP), Director General of the
Department of State Services (DSS), Attorney General of Kano State and the
Attorney General of the Federation (AGF) – who are all named as respondents in
a fundamental rights enforcement suit filed on March 12, 2020 by Sanusi,
through his lawyer.
Ruling on
the matter, Justice Chikere said: “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.”
Justice
Chikere ordered service on the IGP, through any officer in his
office at the police headquarters at Louis Edet House, Garki, Abuja; on
the the the DG DSS, through any officer at the DSS headquarters at Aso
Drive in Abuja; on the AG of Kano State, through any officer at the sate’s
Ministry of Justice, Audu Bako Secretariat, Kano, and on the AGF, through any
officer at the Federal Ministry of Justice in Abuja.
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