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  • Kano lawmakers fight dirty over probe of Emir Sanusi

    Kano lawmakers fight dirty over probe of Emir Sanusi

    It was a free-for-all fight on Monday when the Deputy Speaker and chairman of the Public Complaints and Petition Committee, Hamisu Ibrahim Chidari raised observation over the ongoing investigation of petitions of alleged violation of the culture, tradition and religious values of the people of Kano by Emir Muhammad Sanusi 11.

    Trouble broke out when Chidari in his attempt to make his observation known to members, he instantly opposed by members identified as Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) members.

    In the process, a heated debate ensued which resulted into a physical combat, as the opposition members struggled to take control of the mace.

    In the process, the mace was instantly rescued by security men and the Sergeant of Arm attached to the Assembly.

    According to reports that the fisticuff lasted for about 25 minutes before the House restored back to normalcy and went for a 30 minutes break.

    As at the time of filling in this report, security has been beefed up at the Assembly to forestall any eventuality.

  • ENDLESS WAR: Emir Sanusi ordered to appear before anti-graft agency

    ENDLESS WAR: Emir Sanusi ordered to appear before anti-graft agency

    The Kano State Public Complaint and Anti-Corruption Commission has ordered the Emir of Kano, Muhammadu Sanusi II, to appear before it on Monday, March 9, 2020.

    The anti-graft agency said this in a statement on Thursday as the Kano Emirate requested for another day for the monarch to appear before the body.

    Emir Sanusi was supposed to appear before the agency on Thursday to answer questions on alleged illegal sales of land belonging to the emirate.

    According to the Chairman of the Commission, Barr. Muhuyi Rimingado, the investigations are not related to any other probe of the Emir.

    He said: “Preliminary findings suggest that a company, Country Wide House Ltd. served as a corporate vehicle to allegedly launder the sum of over N2bn being proceeds of several hectares of land in Darmanawa phase I and II and Bubbugaji, under the former right of occupancy CON-RESS 2016-503 illegally sold to Messer family home fund limited at the alleged instance of His Highness the Emir of Kano.”

    Rimingado also claimed that “Investigation further revealed that some of the proceeds of the sales remitted to the Emirate Council’s bank account can be traced to the companies of interest to His Highness.”

    According to the body, the investigation of the Emir followed information brought to it by a whistleblower, on the 29th of December 2019.

    TheNewsGuru(TNG) reports that Sanusi is also being investigated by an eight- man committee set up by the Kano House of Assembly over alleged violations of culture and traditions as well as religious norms of Kano.

    The committee on public petition was mandated to investigate a petition submitted before the house by an association and an individual over the attitude and character of the emir which they claimed was in dispute to the culture and religion.

    The committee, which was headed by the Deputy Speaker, Hamisu Chidare and severn others were given one week to investigate and submit its reports as well as recommend appropriate actions after extensive deliberations by the House.

     

  • BREAKING: Kano Assembly constitutes committee to Investigate Emir Sanusi

    BREAKING: Kano Assembly constitutes committee to Investigate Emir Sanusi

    The Emir of Kano, Muhammad Sanusi ll is again embroiled in another fresh trouble, as The Kano State House of Assembly has set up an eight- man committee to investigate alleged violations of culture and traditions as well as religious norms of Kano against Emir Muhammad Sanusi II.

    The committee on public petition was mandated to investigate a petition submitted before the house by an association and an individual over the attitude and character of the emir which they claimed was in dispute to the culture and religion.

    The committee, which was headed by the Deputy Speaker, Hamisu Chidare and severn others were given one week to investigate and submit its reports as well as recommend appropriate actions after extensive deliberations by the House.

    The groups are Kano State for Promotion of Education and Culture and Mohammed Mukthar Ja’en Yamma, Gwale local government on the petition, the two groups appealed to the lawmakers to investigate the alleged purported misconduct and take an appropriate stand on it.

    However, the atmosphere in the ancient city remain calm as the new developement continue to generate discussion.

     

    Details shortly…

  • North destroying itself, end to quota system inevitable – Emir Sanusi

    North destroying itself, end to quota system inevitable – Emir Sanusi

    Emir of Kano, Muhammadu Sanusi, says the north will “destroy itself if it doesn’t change”.

    The emir spoke on Monday at the Kaduna state government house during a programme to commemorate the 60th birthday celebration of Nasir el-Rufai, governor of Kaduna.

    Sanusi said as a leader, repeating the same thing and expecting a different result shows that something is wrong.

    He noted that the real change can only occur in the north through those who do things differently.

    He commended el-Rufai’s reforms in the education sector, noting that what the governor is doing in the sector is what will save the north.

    “It is almost correct now to say that, if you are seen as normal, if you are a governor in the north or a leader in the north, and you are seen as normal in the sense that you continue to do what your predecessors have been doing, doing the same thing, which has been normalised, then, there is something wrong with you. You are part of the problem, ” Sanusi said.

    “The real change in the north will come from those who are considered mad people, because you look around and say if this is the way we have been doing things, and this is where we have ended up, maybe we need to do things differently.

    “If the north does not change, the north will destroy itself. The country is moving on… If we don’t listen, there would be a day when there would be a constitutional amendment that addresses these issues of quota system and federal character.

    “The rest of the country cannot be investing, educating its children, producing graduates and then they watch us, they can’t get jobs because they come from the wrong state, when we have not invested in the future of our own children.”

    The emir said no northern leader can afford to be happy in the midst of problems facing the region.

    “Nobody who is a leader in northern Nigeria today can afford to be happy,” Sanusi said.

    “You cannot be happy about 87 percent of poverty in Nigeria being in the north. You can’t be happy with millions of northern out-of-school children. You can’t be happy with nine states in the north contributing almost 50 percent of the entire malnutrition burden in the country.

    “You can’t be happy with the Boko Haram problem. You can’t be happy with all the issues.

    “So, we wish Nasir a happy birthday, but we do not want him to be happy as a leader. Because you are happy when you think you have reached a state of delivering and taking your people to where you want them to be.”

    He also said el-Rufai should be celebrated as a public officer who is addressing the core problems of his constituency.

    “If you look at what Nasir is doing in Kaduna, with 40 percent of his budget in education, that is the only thing that is going to safe the north. I know that, when we say these things, they don’t go down well,” he said.

  • Ganduje issues ultimatum to Emir Sanusi

    Ganduje issues ultimatum to Emir Sanusi

    Governor Abdullahi Umar Ganduje has issued a two-day ultimatum to Emir of Kano, Muhammadu Sanusi II, to either confirm his acceptance or rejection of the offer of his appointment as Kano State Council of Chiefs chairman.

    In a statement issued by the permanent secretary of Kano State special duties ministry Musa Bichi, Ganduje ordered Emir Sanusi to respond to the offer indicated in the letter of appointment dated 9th, December 2019 within two days.

    “Please note that His Excellency the Excellency Governor of Kano is requesting His Highness the Emir of Kano (Sarki Kano) to indicate his acceptance or otherwise of his appointment as the Chairman of Kano state Council of Chiefs as conveyed vide letter No. SSG/REPA/S/A/86/T and dated 9th December 2019,” Bichi said.

    “The acceptance or otherwise should reach His Excellency the Executive Governor of Kano state within two days of the receipt of this letter.”

    Ganduje on Monday, December 9 appointed Emir Sanusi as Kano State Council of Chiefs chairman. The appointment, however, has been allegedly disregarded by Emir Sanusi, The Guardian learnt.

    It was gathered the Governor Ganduje may suspend Emir Sanusi if he fails to accept the appointment.

    Already, many believed the offer was a trap to further nailing Emir Sanusi, who might not accept the appointment.

  • Ganduje buries hatchet, appoints Emir Sanusi as chairman

    Ganduje buries hatchet, appoints Emir Sanusi as chairman

    Governor Abdullahi Umar Ganduje of Kano state has laid to rest speculations that he will strip Emir of Kano Muhammadu Sanusi of his position under the new Emirate rules as he appoints the Emir as Chairman State Emirate Council.

    Ganduje said he made the appointment from the powers invested on him by Sections 4 (2) (g) and Section 5((1) (2) of the Kano State Emirate Councils Law 2019.

    Additional four first-class Emirs of Bichi, Rano, Karaye and Gaya, Alhaji Aminu Ado Bayero, Alhaji Dr. Tafida Abubakar (Autan Bawo), Alhaji Dr. Ibrahim Abubakar II and Alhaji Ibrahim Abdulkadir, were appointed as automatic members of the Council, as enshrined in the State Emirate Council Law.

    According to the press release signed by the chief press secretary to the Governor Mr. Abba Anwar, and made available to Newsmen on Monday, Section 4(2) appointed other members as Secretary to the State Government, Commissioner for Local Governments five (5) Chairmen of Local Government Councils one each from the Local Government Council where the Emir’s palace is situated.

    Others according to the Section comprises at least Ten (10) Kingmakers, 2 each from the Five (5) Emirates mentioned under Section 3(1) of the Law, Chief Imam of each Emirate.

    Other members include a representative of the Business Community from each Emirate to be appointed by the Governor, as the names of Alhaji Dalhat Al-Hamsad and Alhaji Auwalu Abdullahi Rano are appointed by the Governor, as two of them.

    Also, the Law stipulates, as members of the State Council of Chiefs, a representative of Security Agencies, the Police, State Security Service, and Civil Defence Corps. And not more than two (2) other members to be appointed by the Governor, the names of Alhaji Nasiru Aliko Koki is nominated as a member of the State Council of Chiefs, under this category. And then the Secretary of the Council would be appointed by the Council of Chiefs.

    Section 5(1), (2) of the Law provides that, the Chairmanship of the State Council of Chiefs shall be rotational among the Five (5) Emirs of the Emirates and the sequence of which is to be determined by the Governor and the Chairman shall serve for two (2) years only.

    The appointment is with effect from Monday, the 9th Day of December 2019. It is also directed that the Chairman shall immediately summon the inaugural meeting of the Council following the provisions of the Law.

    Governor Ganduje urges all the Council members to utilize the opportunity to serve the people in the state and to strengthen the Emirates and the traditional system of administration in the State in advising the state government, more particularly on security matters.

  • Emir Sanusi’s influence threatened as Kano Assembly finally passes Ganduje’s Emirate Council Bill

    The Kano state house of assembly has approved the 2019 Emirate council Bill.

    The speaker of the house Alhaji Abdulaziz Garba Gafasa announced the Approval during the house plenary held in Kano on Thursday.

    The new bill has approved four additional Emirates council in the state which includes Bichi, Gaya, Rani and Karaye.

    The bill scaled through first, second and third readings before it was finally adopted by members of the assembly.

    However, last Wednesday, the state House of Assembly was engulfed in a rowdy session over Governor Ganduje’s reactivated Emirate council Bill where members were sharply divided.

    Recall that a Kano High Court, presided by Justice Usman Nabba, had nullified the new emirates and consequently restrained the governor, the House of Assembly, their servants, agents and proxies from giving effect to or from continuing to give effect to the (Appointment and Deposition Law) 2019.

    In its judgement, the court held that the purported proceedings or discussions taken by the Kano State House of Assembly in respect of the law violated its own rule, adding that the legislators failed to comply with Order II, Rule 3 of Kano State House of Assembly.

    Justice Na’Abba pointed out that the Kano State House of Assembly violated section 101 of the Nigerian Constitution which gives the assembly the power to enact its rules and guidelines of proceedings.

    The bill is expected to be ascent by governor Abdullahi Umar Ganduje soon for immediate action.

    Meanwhile, overzealous security operatives attached to the Kano state House of Assembly harassed and threatened to shoot some newsmen, who had come to cover proceedings on Kano Emirate council Bill.

    Despite identifying ourselves, the security men remained adamant insisting that they would not allow us entrance into the premises over undisclosed reasons.

    However, the timely intervention of the Assembly,Director of Press, Malam Ali Bala saved the situation.

  • Emir Sanusi attacks FG: Nigeria bankrupt, number of people living with poverty frightening

    Emir Sanusi attacks FG: Nigeria bankrupt, number of people living with poverty frightening

    Emir of Kano, Muhammadu Sanusi 11 has declared the Muhammadu Buhari administration’s economic policies as unfavourable, adding that Nigeria is on the threshold of bankruptcy.

    He identified the bad economic policies of the Buhari administration to include subsidizing petroleum products, electricity tariffs and using 70 percent of the country’s revenue to service debt.

    Emir Sanusi, a former Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), made these revelations at the ongoing 3rd National Treasury Workshop organized by the office of the Accountant General of the Federation at Coronation Hall, Government House, Kano.

    He advised Buhari to cancel subsidy in petroleum subsidy and electricity tariffs if the economy must stabilize.

    “The country is Bankrupt and we are heading to bankruptcy. What happened is that the Federal Government do pay petroleum subsidy, pay electricity tariff subsidy, and if there is rise in interest rates, Federal Government pays.

    “What is more life-threatening than subsidy that we have to sacrifice education, health sector and infrastructure for us to have cheap petroleum.

    “If truly President Buhari is fighting poverty, he should remove the risk on the national financial sector and stop the subsidy regime which is fraudulent.”

    He challenged President Buhari to tell Nigerians the fact about the economic situation and also act quickly on it because the nation is already bankrupt.

    “Since I have decided to come here, you have to accept what I have said here. And please, if you do not want to hear the truth, never invite me.

    “So let us talk about the state of public finance in Nigeria. We have a number of very difficult decisions that we must make, and we should face the reality. His Excellency, the President said in his inaugural speech that his government would like to lift 100 million people out of poverty, it was a speech that was well received not only in this country, but world-wide.

    “The number of people living with poverty in Nigeria are frightening. By 2050, 85 percent of those living in extreme poverty in the world will be from the African continent. And Nigeria and the Democratic Republic of Congo will take the lead.

    “Two days ago, I read that the percentage of government revenue going to debt services has risen to 70 percent.

    ”These numbers are not lying. They are public numbers. I read them in the newspapers. When you are spending 70 percent of your revenue on debt services, then you are managing 30 percent.

    “And then, you continue subsidizing petroleum products; and spending N1.5 trillion per annum on petroleum subsidy! And then we are subsidizing electricity tariff. And maybe, you have to borrow from the capital market or the Central Bank of Nigeria to service the shortfall in the electricity tariff, where is the money to pay salaries, where is the money for education, where are other government projects.

    Sanusi lamented that for 30 years, successive governments have had this project called petroleum subsidy, insisting that this is the right time to stop it so as to save the nation’s economy.

  • Fayemi appoints Emir Sanusi Chancellor Ekiti State University

    Fayemi appoints Emir Sanusi Chancellor Ekiti State University

    Ekiti state government has appointed the Emir of Kano, Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, as the Chancellor of the state-owned Ekiti State University (EKSU), Ado Ekiti.

    The Head, Directorate of Information and Corporate Affairs in the institution, Mr Bode Olofinmuagun, on Monday confirmed the development to News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), in Ado Ekiti, but did not give details.

    The traditional ruler replaces the Alara of Aramoko Ekiti, Oba Adegoke Olu Adeyemi who held the office for four years during the last administration of former Gov. Ayo Fayose.

    NAN learnt that consequent upon Sanusi’s appointment, management of the institution had paid homage to the Emir in his palace in Kano.

    It was also gathered that the Emir had since accepted the offer, through a letter addressed to the government by the Matawallen Kano, Alhaji Ibrahim Ahmed.

    The letter by the Emir, thanked Gov Kayode Fayemi and the state government for the honour, promising to use his influence and wealth of experience to advance the course of the university.

    NAN recalls that EKSU is the fourth university in the country to appointed the Emir as Chancellor since he ascended the throne.

  • Again court orders Ganduje, Emir Sanusi to maintain status quo

    Again court orders Ganduje, Emir Sanusi to maintain status quo

    A High Court sitting in Kano on Thursday, again ordered Gov. Abdullahi Ganduje and Emir of Kano, Alhaji Muhammadu Sanusi ll to maintain status quo in respect of the interim order issued against the governor on May 10.

    News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that on May 10, the court through the ex-parte application by the applicant, Rabiu Gwarzo restrained Ganduje and all other respondents in the case from appointing or recognising any purported emir under the Kano state Emirs Appointment And Disposition Amendment Law 2019, pending the hearing of motion on notice.

    In his ruling, Justice Nasiru Saminu, ordered that all the parties in the suit should still maintain status quo pending the hearing of motion on notice.

    Saminu adjourned the matter until July 15 for hearing.

    Earlier, the Counsel to Ganduje, the former Attorney-General of Kano State, Mr Ibrahim Mukhtar, urged the court to vacate the order since it was issued over 20-days-ago and has expired.

    “An exparte order has seven days life spam under, Section 39 sub section III and Section IV grants the court power to extend the life seven days life spam of the exparte.

    The Counsel to the applicant, Lateef Fagbemi, SAN, objected to the oral application to vacate the order, by informing the court that the application should be accompanied with a written address.

    “On preliminary urge the court to allow the motion to keep it cause ,it is not ripe for hearing”