Royal Siege: Police Surround Kano Emir’s Palace. Operatives of the Nigeria Police yesterday surrounded the Emir of Kano’s palace at about 6pm. Even though there was no visible presence of the policemen in the city, there are conflicting reports that the policemen were there to prevent the new emir from gaining entrance into the palace. A source told LEADERSHIP that after Sanusi was sworn in at the Government House, he was not escorted to the emir’s palace as was expected in accordance with the emirate tradition. It was further gathered that there were plans to arrest the new emir and prevent him from moving to the emir’s palace. At the time of going to press, the new Kano emir was still at Naseer House, a guest apartment at the Kano Government House. A source close to the new emir told LEADERSHIP that the new Kano emir was expecting some of the royal fathers and children of late Bayero to come and pay their respect. Our reporter confirmed that one of the emir’s sons, the district head of Kumbotso local government area, Alhaji Ahmad Ado Bayero, came to the Government House to pay his respect to the new emir. It is also uncertain when the new emir would move to his palace. Our findings revealed that he may not move to the emir’s palace until the families of late Bayero had vacated the place and moved to their new houses which the state government had built for them. The new emir may also delay his movement to the palace until it had been renovated. However, hundreds of youths and vigilance groups were at Kano Government House to ensure the emir’s safety and that of the Kano State governor against alleged possible attack by protesters. Police spokesman in Kano, ASP Musa Majia, neither picked his calls nor responded to the text messages sent to his phone at press time. FG withdraws police security from Kano Govt House. The federal government yesterday withdrew police security from Kano Government House and environs, a source in the state government told LEADERSHIP. According to the source, the police around the state government house left their duty posts at about 1pm. “They just packed up and left their duty posts without any explanation ....... --LEADERSHIP NEWS
Posted on: Tue, 10 Jun 2014 05:15:06 +0000
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