A Kano State high court presided by the Chief Judge, Justice Dije Abdu Aboki, has granted an interim order restraining the 15th Emir of Kano, Aminu Ado Bayero, from renovating the Nasarawa mini palace.
Bayero has been holding courts at the palace since his return to the state after the dissolution of the emirates.
The state government, the state attorney general and Kano Emirate are the plaintiffs while Bayero is the sole defendant in the matter.
The order directed parties in the suit to maintain the status quo regarding the structural and architectural design of the palace pending the hearing and determination of the suit.
“That an order of interim injunction is hereby made restraining the defendant, his agents, privies, or anyone acting under the instruction or command of the defendant under whatever manner from demolishing, renovating repairing reconstructing refurbishing the property known as Gidan Sarki Nasarawa situated along state road, Kano pending the hearing and determination of the motion on notice before this court,” Justice Aboki held.
In the court document seen by our reporter, the applicants filed an experte dated September 9 supported by 33 paragraph affidavit deposed to by Matawallen Kano, Alhaji Ibrahim Ahmed.
The court also ordered the monarch to be served with the court processes by substituted means and fixed October 2 for a hearing on the motion on notice.
