A Kano State High Court on Wednesday fixed October 10 for ruling in an interlocutory application seeking to restrain the 15th Emir of Kano, Aminu Ado-Bayero, from renovating the Nasarawa Mini Palace.
The applicants are the Kano State Government, Attorney General of Kano and Kano Emirate Council, through their counsel Rilwanu Umar SAN, filed a motion exparte dated September 12, 2024.
The applicants are seeking the court to restrain Ado-Bayero from renovating Nasarawa mini palace situated along State Road Kano.
Mr Ado-Bayero is the sole respondent in the suit. When the case came up for hearing in the motion on notice, Counsel to the applicants, Habib Akilu, told the court that the defendant was not represented and the substantive suit was ripe for hearing.
Mr Akilu moved the interlocutory application seeking to restrain the defendant from reconstructing or changing the mini palace.
The presiding Judge and Chief Judge of Kano State, Justice Dije Abdu-Aboki, adjourned the matter until October 10 for ruling and mention of the substantive suit.
Mr Abdu-Aboki ordered that processes should be pasted on the notice board of the court.
The court on September 13 granted an order of interim injunction restraining the defendant, his agents, privies, or anyone acting under the instruction in whatever manner from demolishing, renovating and repairing, “Reconstructing and refurbishing the property known as Gidan Sarki Nasarawa situated along State Road, Kano pending the hearing and determination of the motion on notice”
The court also directed parties in the suit to maintain status quo in respect of the structural and architectural design of the palace pending the hearing and determination of the suit.
