An intrigue has been introduced into the ordeals the deposed Emir of Kano, Muhammadu Sanusi, is going through.
He has been taken to Nasarawa under what many believe is an inhumane condition, to the extent that the first place he was housed in Loko is said to be inhabitable by him.
As pressure now mounts on the Kano State Government that deposed him, its Attorney-General, Ibrahim Muktar, says the state government did not banish the deposed Emir, has said that the government is not responsible for Sanusi’s banishment.
He said on a Channels Television programme on Wednesday, “If you listen to the Secretary to the State Government when he was addressing the press on the issue of the removal of the emir from office, there was nowhere he stated that the emir was banished from Kano State.
“So, the decision of the government when the emir was removed on Monday was that he was removed from office and a new one appointed. The issue of banishment was not part of the decision of the Kano State Government.
“We have been hearing from the media that he has been banished but what I know is that he was taken out of Kano State but banishment was not part of our decision. There is no such decision to the best of my knowledge.
“The state government has not taken the law into its hands. Let me explain that the decision to remove the emir from office is administrative and was not based on the issues pending before the court. All the issues pending before the court have not to do with the removal of the emir or the dethronement.”
