Admin l Friday, March 13, 2020
ABUJA, Nigeria – A Federal High Court sitting in Abuja has ordered the Kano State Governor, Abdullahi Umaru Ganduji to immediately release from illegal detention former Emir of Kano, Muhammadu Sanusi II.
Governor Ganduje has deposed the Emir 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.
Starconnectmedia recalls that 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.
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But today, a Federal High 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.
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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.”
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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.
