REMEMBER EMIRS DASUKI AND JOKOLO.......GROUPS WARNS KANO EMIR

HRM MUHAMMADU SANUSI II

Emir of Kano, Muhammadu Sanusi II has, due to his incessant criticisms of the Buhari led-government, has been cautioned by a Kano State based pro-democracy group.

The group which calls itself; Coalition for Democratic Norms (CODEM), has asked their Emir to desist from his incessant attacks on the government of President Muhammadu Buhari, to avoid unnecessary consequences.
In a statement jointly signed by Balla Abbe Kazaure and Usman Dan NumaGazkiya, National Coordinator and General Secretary respectively, the group is of the view that, “Emir Sanusi, going by his position must have had several open channels to get to the Presidency to ventilate his ideas on economy, than attacking the seat of power openly.”
“The Emir of Kano seemed not to learn from history that whoever lives in a glass house should not throw stone as no Emirship has the capacity to defend any glass house when the act of throwing stones boomerangs”.
“CODEM agrees that anybody, however, has the right to advice or criticize the government, it however warned that, it was not when such a person is vulnerable”.
The group further went down memory lane by counseling that; “as it is, the position of an Emir is too vulnerable to guarantee the comfort of public commentary, especially making a career out of acerbic take on government policies”, the statement read.
The group, in the statement further cautioned by reminding the Emir of former very powerful traditional rulers in the past that had engaged government and the fate that befell them.
“Powerful traditional rulers like Sultan Dasuki and Emir Jokolo were all stripped of their titles in ONE day; no processes, nothing. That’s how “useless” the traditional authority is in our present arrangement”.
“Emir Sanusi’s own grandfather was only casually invited to Kaduna in 1963. On arriving the Governor’s office, Sir Kashim Ibrahim drew out a “prepared letter of resignation” alongside the report of DJM Muffet report of inquiry into Native Authority Finances. He was advised to sign the letter. He did”.
“He went into the office as an Emir with all the paraphernalia and emerged out of it as a “retired” Emir. He was immediately exiled to Azare, in present day Bauchi state”.
The group further in its statement reminded that “Emir Sanusi was only until recently, the immediate past Governor of the CBN and if the government wants, it could get proverbially, a thousand and one things to use against him”.    
 CODEM cited issues of the Financial Reporting Council report, FOREX Management under him as well as bailout for Banks, as example.
“It is like the case of someone in the glasshouse and the Emirship cannot fortify that glasshouse”.
The statement further cautioned that; “the Emir’s closeness to Bola Tinubu, Bukola Saraki and Nasir el-Rufai can be misconstrued to mean conspiracy against the government towards 2019”.

Many stakeholders are however of the view that the criticisms by the former CBN governor was not unwarranted as there is a serious need for caution to be applied by government in  many of its policies which are reported to strangulating the common man on the streets.

The Emir has however, in a recent response to one of such rebuke, insisted that his commentaries are borne out of genuine concerns for Nigeria, reminding that, if he could criticize a government under which he served, he sees no reason why he cannot do same for this administration, as it was for the greater good of the country.