The court had ordered that the state government should pay the sum of N10million as compensation to Sanusi.
The Kano State Government has rejected the recent ruling by the Federal High Court declaring as unlawful and unconstitutional, the banishment of the deposed Emir of Kano, Sanusi Muhammadu Sanusi.
The court had ordered that the state government should pay the sum of N10million as compensation to Sanusi.
Meanwhile, the state’s Attorney-General and Commissioner for Justice, Musa Lawan, stated that the state government would further file an appeal on the judgment.
Judge Anwuli Chikere had pronounced the ruling on Tuesday in a suit filed by Sanusi, and awarded N10million compensation against the respondents including the police, the State Security Service (SSS) and the Attorney-General of Kano State.
She also ordered them to tender a public apology to Sanusi in two national dailies.
Chikere held that the Emirate Council Law, 2019, relied on by the Kano State government in banishing Sanusi, was in conflict with the Nigerian constitution.
According to her, the Nigerian constitution is supreme and any law that is inconsistent with it shall be null and void.
The judge also declared that the former emir had the right to live anywhere, including Kano State, as enshrined in the country’s constitution.
The Kano State Government had on March 9, 2020 deposed Mr Sanusi after which security agents moved him to Abuja.
He was later banished to Awe in Nasarawa State, where he was confined to a private house until March 13 when he obtained an interim order of the court for his release from house arrest.
Sanusi has since been living in Lagos State as a private citizen and has been travelling to other parts of the country.
Lawan told Solace, a Kano-based online, that the constitution recognised tradition and customs and that they should be protected.
He maintained that the state government would do everything possible to protect the customs and traditions of the Kano people.
“Where a person that is part of the emirate decides to destroy the traditions and customs and does only things that he deems fit will not be allowed,’’ the commissioner said.
“For over 100 years, it has been the tradition and customs in our clime that when an emir is deposed, he is banished to another community and there was nothing unusual in the case of Malam Muhammadu Sanusi II,‘’ Lawan added.