{"id":25230,"date":"2020-03-12T22:21:38","date_gmt":"2020-03-12T21:21:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=25230"},"modified":"2020-03-12T22:21:38","modified_gmt":"2020-03-12T21:21:38","slug":"sanusi-drags-kano-govt-agf-two-others-to-court-over-banishment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=25230","title":{"rendered":"Sanusi Drags Kano Govt, AGF,  two others to court over banishment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By <strong>Yemi Oyeyemi<\/strong>, Abuja<br \/>\nFormer Emir of Kano, Alhaji Sanusi Lamido Sanusi has formally dragged the Kano State government and Attorney General of the Federation (AGF) before a Federal High Court in Abuja over his unlawful banishment to Awe town in Nasarawa State.<br \/>\nSanusi in a fundamental human rights suit instituted in Abuja is praying the court to release him from detention and confinement to Awe town.<br \/>\nIn the suit brought pursuant to section 34, 35, 40, 41 and 46 of the 1999 Constitution and Order 4 Rule 4 of the Federal High Court, the former emir wants the court to restore his right to human dignity, personal liberty, freedom of association and movement in Nigeria apart from Kano State.<br \/>\nOther respondents in the legal action are the Inspector General of Police and Director General, State Security Service (SSS).<br \/>\nSanusi&#8217;s legal team of about 30 lawyers including 12 Senior Advocates of Nigeria, is headed by Prince Lateef Olasunkanmi Fagbemi SAN.<br \/>\nIn the suit with no: FHC\/ABJ\/ CS\/357\/2020, the former Emir of Kano is asking the court to declare his banishment to Nasarawa State as illegal, unlawful, unconstitutional, null and void.<br \/>\nSanusi was on Monday, March 9, 2020, dethroned as Emir of Kano by the State government.<br \/>\nAmong others, Sanusi was accused of disrespect to authorities of Kano state government, disloyalty and absence from meetings without cogent reasons<br \/>\nFrom the tone of this particular court action, the former emir appeared silent on his dethronement, but focussed on his unlawful banishment to a town in Nasarawa state.<br \/>\nShortly after his dethronement, he was banished to Loko village in Nasarawa State from where he was later moved to Awe town.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Yemi Oyeyemi, Abuja Former Emir of Kano, Alhaji Sanusi Lamido Sanusi has formally dragged the Kano State government and Attorney General of the Federation (AGF) before a Federal High Court in Abuja over his unlawful banishment to Awe town in Nasarawa State. Sanusi in a fundamental human rights suit instituted in Abuja is praying [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":22804,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[1251,352,90],"class_list":["post-25230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-banishment","tag-court","tag-kano"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25230\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}