The coast appears not clear yet for the newly installed Emir of Kano, His Eminence, Sanusi Lamido Sanusi who was crowned Muhammadu Sanusi II, the 14th monarch of the emirate in June as there are indications that the Federal Government might have...
stopped the planned coronation ceremony of the former Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) governor.
It was gathered from source that arrangements had been concluded and guests invited for the ceremony scheduled to hold last Saturday September 6 before it was abruptly cancelled without any official announcement to explain why.
Another sign that all is still not well within the emirate is the refusal of the Department of State Security Service, DSS to release the seized passport of the emir despite his decision to withdraw legal suits instituted against the Federal Government in the courts to quash his suspension from office as CBN governor.
DSS operatives had in February seized the travelling documents of Sanusi following his suspension as CBN governor, shortly after he arrived Lagos from Niger Republic, where he had gone to attend a meeting of Governors of Central Banks in the West African sub-region.
Shortly after his plane landed at the ExecuJet Terminal of the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Ikeja, Lagos, he was accosted by DSS operatives who detained him briefly and released him after seizing his passport.
President Jonathan had ordered the immediate suspension of Sanusi from office, alleging that his tenure had been characterized by various acts of financial recklessness and misconduct inconsistent with the administration’s vision of a Central Bank propelled by the core values of focused economic management, prudence, transparency and financial discipline.
Not many Nigerians believed, however, that Sanusi was suspended because he was guilty of any offence as most people argue that he was removed as CBN governor to punish him for denting the image of the government through his public indictment of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), which he accused of diverting huge federal revenues totaling over $20 billion.
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