By Favour Olekanma A High Court sitting in Sokoto has restrained Governor Ahmed Aliyu from dethroning two traditional rulers in the st...
By Favour Olekanma
A High Court sitting in Sokoto has restrained Governor Ahmed
Aliyu from dethroning two traditional rulers in the state.
The presiding judge, Justice Kabiru Ibrahim Ahmed, gave the
order separately as sought by the District Heads of Tambuwal and Kebbe, Buhari
Dahiru Tambuwal and Abubakar Kassim, on Thursday.
Justice Ahmed ordered the Governor, the state’s Attorney
General and the Sokoto Sultanate Council, their agents servants, privies or
assigns, regarding Kebbe and Tambuwal monarchs, to stay action, particularly
against both monarchs pending the hearing and determination of the motion for
interlocutory injunction filed by their counsel, Ibrahim Abdullahi, SAN.
The judge directed the defendants to “maintain status quo
and stay all actions and further actions in connection with all matters dealing
with and or appertaining to the removal and or dethronement of district heads
in Sokoto State.”
This came after the state government earlier ousted both
monarchs, along with 12 others, for alleged insubordination and fuelling
insecurity in the state.
The governor also sent a bill to the State Assembly, seeking
an amendment to the state Local Government Law, which on Wednesday, passed a
second reading and was thereafter referred to a House Committee.
The bill, which is set for public hearing on Tuesday, if
passed, would confer on the governor, exclusive powers to appoint and dethrone
traditional rulers, and district and village heads in the state.
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