A Federal High Court sitting in Kano on Friday restrained the anti-graft agency, Kano state Public Complaints and Anti-corruption Commission from investigating the Emir of Kano, Muhammad Sanusi II, over alleged N2.2 billion land scam.
The anti-graft agency had insisted that the emir must appear before it as he had a case to answer.
The emir had, Friday, filed an exparte motion before the court against the Kano state Public Complaints and Anti-Corruption Commission (1st respondent), the Attorney General, Kano state, Muhyi Magaji Rimingado, and the governor as 2nd, 3rd and 4th respondents, respectively.
Sanusi, through his counsel, led by Nureini Jimoh, seeks that the court restrain the 1st and 2nd respondents (Kano state Public Complaints and Anti-Corruption Commission and its chairman, Muhyi Magaji Rimingado, respectively, from investigating the affairs (of the applicant) pending the hearing of the originating motion.
The presiding judge, Justice Lewis Allagoa on Friday granted the order of the monarch that the status quo be maintained.
Justice Allagoa said, “Status quo should be maintained in the interim pending the hearing and determination of the originating motion. The respondents are to be served with the order of the court made in this suit and other processes through the 1st respondent (Kano state Public Complaint and Anti-corruption Commission).”
Allagoa, thereafter, adjourned the matter to March 18, 2020, for hearing.
The anti-graft agency had earlier invited the emir to appear before it on Thursday, March 5, 2020, for an investigation, but the monarch a letter through his lawyers, Messrs Dikko and Mahmoud, requesting for an extension of date, March 25, 2020, to appear before the Commission, but the latter (commission) insisted that he must appear on Monday, March 9, 2020, by 11:00am.
