A High Court in Kano on Friday restrained the Emir of Kano, Alhaji Muhammadu Sanusi II, from demolishing or tempering with any structure in the emir’s palace.
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that one Alhaji Salim Bayero had filed a suit seeking an order to stop Sanusi, the Emirate Council and the Kano State Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice from destroying some structures in the palace.
Bayero also prayed the court to restrain the defendants from evicting occupiers of the structures pending the determination of a substantive suit on the matter.
The Judge, Justice A.T. Badamasi, in his ruling, also restrained Sanusi and the Emirate Council from evicting any person residing inside the palace, known as Gidan Rumfa, until the determination of the substantive application.
The judge also directed that the parties should maintain the status quo pending the determination of the substantive suit.
Badamasi adjourned hearing of the main suit till November 12.
Reacting to the ruling, counsel to the plaintiff, Sanusi Sadiq, told newsmen that what the Emir and the council were seeking to destroy was the graveyard where no fewer than 13 former Kano emirs were buried.
Sadiq explained that the plan to demolish the structures in the palace was capable of “killing the ancient tradition, which Kano Emirate Council was known for”.
NAN.
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