Kaduna:
Court restrains El-Rufai from sacking over 4,000 traditional leaders
— 23rd June
2017
From Sola
Ojo, Kaduna
A High
Court sitting in Kafanchan, Kaduna
State, has granted an interim injunction restraining Governor Nasir El-Rufai
and others from sacking over 4,000 traditional leaders across the state for
several reasons including lack of finances to manage them.
The
presiding judge, Justice S.S Daka, noted that the restraining order, which was
signed by him and also signed by the Assistant Chief Registrar, Esther B. Yayit
on June 20, 2017, was based on the presentation of Abdullahi Bello counsel to
the applicants having perused the nine paragraph affidavit in support and five
exhibits marked MK A.
The matter
was adjourned to June 29, 2017 for hearing the Motion on Notice.
The affected
traditional leaders are those enthroned during the tenure of ex governor Ahmed Makarfi
which was done to douse tension, about 18 years ago.
The interim
injunction also restrained the House of Assembly, Jaafaru Ibrahim Sani, Kaduna
Ministry of local government affairs, Adara traditional council, Gbagyi
traditional council and the Attorney General of Kaduna state, either by
themselves or through their agents, servants and proxies from acting on the
directives contained in the letter of the third defendants to the fifth and
sixth defendants dated June 12, 2017 wherein the first, third and fourth
defendants/respondents directed the fifth and sixth defendants, among others,
to take steps to fill the offices of District and Village Heads within their
domains pending the hearing and determination of Motion on Notice.
Similarly,
an order of interim injunction is also granted restraining the
defendants/respondents from doing anything which has the consequences of being
prejudicial to the plaintiffs continued occupation of their offices, pending
the hearing and determination of the Motion on Notice.
Mr Stephen
A. Gimba, Mr Gajere Dantawaye, Mr Ishaku Yari, Alhaji Gambo Yaro, are
plaintiffs in the suit, with No. KDH/KAF/107/2017.
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The plaintiffs also prayed for an order of
interim injunction restraining the defendants/respondents from doing anything
which has the consequences of being prejudicial to the plantiffs continued
occupation of their offices pending the hearing and determination of the Motion
on Notice and such further and/or other orders as the court may deem fit to
make in the circumstance.
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