Court restrains Kano anti-graft agency from probing Emir Sanusi
A Federal High Court in Kano has ordered Kano State Public Complaints and Anti-Corruption Commission to maintain status quo in the ongoing investigation of Emir of Kano, Malam Muhammadu Sanusi ll. Emir Sanusi dragged the commission to court and sought for an order to restrain it from investigating him over alleged land racketeering to the […]
Emir Sanusi
A Federal High Court in Kano has ordered Kano State Public Complaints and Anti-Corruption Commission to maintain status quo in the ongoing investigation of Emir of Kano, Malam Muhammadu Sanusi ll.
Emir Sanusi dragged the commission to court and sought for an order to restrain it from investigating him over alleged land racketeering to the tune of N2.2billion.
Other parties in the suit include Kano State Governor, Dr Abdullahi Ganduje, Chairman of Kano State Public Complaint and Anti-Corruption Commission, Barrister Muhuyi Magaji Rimingado and the state Attorney General, Barrister Ibrahim Mukhtar.
The commission had on Thursday insisted that it would investigate Emir Sanusi over alleged sells of landed properties belonging to Kano Emirate.
Chairman of the commission, Barrister Muhuyi Magaji Rimingado, at the press conference on Thursday, said the commission had extended an invitation to the emir to appear before it on Monday, March 9, 2020 by 10am.
However, solicitors to the emir, Dikko & Mahmoud, in a suit prayed for an interim injunction from a Federal High Court, restraining the commission from investigating the emir.
The presiding judge, Justice Lewis Allagoa, ordered the commission and its Chairman, Barrister Rimingado, to maintain the status qou pending the determination of the case filed before it by the emir.
The order, dated March 6, 2020 and signed by Justice Allagoa, reads in part: “The status quo be maintained in the interim pending the hearing and determination of the originating motion.
Justice Allagoa then adjourned the case till March 18, 2020 for hearing.
The emir in his prayers requested for an interim injunction restraining the 1st and 2nd respondents (Commission and its Chairman) from investigating the affairs of the Applicant pending the hearing of the originating motion.
Contacted, Barrister Rimingado said the commission would honor the court by appearing before it on March 18, 2020.
“The commission will ask the court of law to compel the emir to appear before it. Because as far as the commission is concerned, the court did not stop it from continuing with its investigation. The status qou is subject to interpretation,” he said.