The People who Ordered My Detention: Sanusi Speaks

The deposed emir of Kano, Lamido Sanusi, has reveal the powers that ordered his dethronement, and his unlawful imprisonment in Nassarawa state.

The former Central Bank Governor, was sent packing by the Kano state government on Monday for “total disrespect for lawful instructions from the office of the state government,” who he had a frosty relationship with since 2017.

Specifically, the Kano State Government dethroned Sanusi, the 14th Emir of Kano, following an approval by the state executive council.

It also cited Sanusi’s alleged refusal to attend official meetings and programmes organised by the government without any lawful justification, which it said amounted to total insubordination.

Sanusi says his dethronement as Emir of Kano is unjustifiable but won’t take legal action against the Kano State Government.

Sanusi, also said he was denied fair hearing in the process leading to his deposition, claimed his arrest order, banishment from Kano and subsequent detention in Awe, Nasarawa State, came from Abuja.

According to him, the Attorney General of Kano State, Ibrahim Muktar, and the Attorney General of the Federation, Abubakar Malami (SAN), instructed the Department of State Services and police to detain him.

Sanusi said he was harassed and rushed out of the palace without being allowed to pick up his personal belongings.

He said upon his dethronement, an unnamed friend of his sent an aircraft to Kano to convey him and his family to Lagos but that the Kano State Commissioner of Police ordered him to be flown to Abuja in another aircraft without his family members.

Sanusi stated these in the suit he filed on Thursday to challenge his detention and confinement in Awe.

The Federal High Court in Abuja where he filed the suit on Friday granted an interim order for his release.

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