Detention: Sanusi drags Police, DSS, others to court
•Nasarawa governor, Emirs visit him in Awe
The dethroned Kano Emor, Lamido Sanusi Lamido, on Thursday, instituted a suit before the Federal High Court in Abuja seeking an order for his release from the post-removal detention and confinement.
Sanusi was taken to Awe in Nasarawa State and he has been detained in an apartment in the town after he was dethroned by the Kano State Government on Monday.
His team of lawyers led by Lateef Fagbemi (SAN), on Thursday, filed a suit marked FHC/ABJ/CS/357/2020 before the Federal High Court in Abuja.
He prayed for an interim order releasing him “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.”
The respondents to the application are the Inspector-General of Police, the Director-General of the Department of State Service, the Attorney-General of Kano State and the Attorney-General of the Federation.
Meanwhile, the Governor of Nasarawa state Abdullahi Sule of alongside the Emirs of Lafia and Awe are currently meeting with the deposed Emir of Kano, Muhammadu Sanusi II in Awe.
The governor, who arrived by 5:10 pm on Thursday with the Emir of Lafia, Justice Sidi Dauda Bage, visited the guest house of Awe local government chairman, where Sanusi has been kept since his dethronement on Monday by the Kano State Government.
The Emir of Awe, Alhaji Isa Abubakar Umar II, also came by 5:00pm to receive the state governor.
Governor Sule’s visit has dispelled rumours making rounds that the deposed Emir had been moved out of Awe.
