By Bashir Mohammed
The number of visitors daily trooping into the emir’s place in Kano has considerably reduced as the result of heavy security personnel mounted at the emir’s palace.
Even though it was hinted earlier that the heavy security presence was mounted to maintain law and order, people were made to suspect that there was a foul play somewhere since it only happened barely two days after the appointment of Alhaji Lamido Sanusi Lamido as the 14th Fulani Emir of Kano.
Our correspondent who visited the palace yesterday evening reports that the normal entrance to the palace was under lock and key with the heavily armed mobile policemen keeping vigil.
Visitors were only allowed in through the Kofar Arewa gate adjacent to the Kano central mosque, a situation that compelled ordinary visitors to stay back.
Visitors who spoke to our reporter on the siege by the heavily armed security operatives said the siege was uncalled for, adding that at a time when the people of Kano were still mourning the death of a revered emir like Ado Bayero, visitors should be allowed to move freely.
Up till the time of filing in this report, Emir Sanusi was still receiving visitors on a condolence visit and the retinue of homage payers at Kano Government House as one could not unravel the rationale behind his failure to enter the palace.
