In what appears the end of the fierce face-off between President Goodluck Jonathan and the Emir of Kano, Muhammad Sanusi II, the State Security Services has returned to the Emir his travelling documents seized from him on May 3 at the height of his disagreement with the President.
The Senior Special Assistant to Governor Rabiu Kwankwaso on Chieftaincy and Emirate Council Affairs, Tijjani Mailafiya, told journalists the SSS returned the Emir’s passport through the director in charge of its Kano state command, Bassey Itang.
Mr. Mailafiya commended the Federal Government for releasing the passport six months after it was seized at the Aminu Kano International Airport in Kano as the Emir made to board a Turkish airline flight for a planned trip to Saudi Arabia for lesser hajj.
He said with his passport now in his possession, the Emir was now better placed to serve his people locally and  abroad, when necessary.
The SSS had confiscated the Emir’s travelling documents as he made to board the May 3 11: 10p.m. Turkish Airlines flight to Turkey where he would have connected another flight to Saudi Arabia.
The agency’s action was a contravention of the April 3 judgment of a Federal High Court in Lagos, which restrained it and the Nigeria Police from arresting or harassing the then CBN Governor or seizing his passport.
Mr. Sanusi had sued after the SSS seized his passport on February 20 shortly after he arrived Lagos from Niger, where he had gone to attend a meeting of governors of central banks in the West African sub-region. He had then been suspended from office in absentia.
Shortly after his plane landed at the ExecuJet Terminal of the Murtala Muhammed International Airport in Lagos, he was accosted by SSS operatives who detained him briefly and insisted he must surrender his passport.
Speaking on the release of the passport Saturday, Mr. Mailafiya  thanked the Kano state government for being in the vanguard of those who pressed for the release of the document.
Some Nigerians may however see the handing over of the document as President Goodluck Jonathan’s direct gesture of saying everything is now alright between him and the Kano Emirate Council.
After nearly a year of bitter relations, President Jonathan and the Emir met on October 30 in Abuja and reconciled differences that once drove both men to the extremes of their offices.
Sanusi, a former governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, was fired by the president on February 20 after accusing the government of diverting $20 billion oil revenues.
The government denied the claim, and in turn, accused Mr. Sanusi of “financial recklessness”.
After leaving office, Mr. Sanusi was appointed the Emir of Kano in June, assuming one of the most powerful traditional stools in Nigeria.
His appointment by Kano State’s Governor Rabiu Kwankwaso, a member opposition All Progressives Congress, was opposed by the presidency which ordered the emir’s office blockaded for days.
The emir reportedly initiated peace moves, and the two men met for the first time in July during the breaking of the Muslim fast, a yearly routine in which the president meets top government officials who are Muslims and other prominent Islamic leaders in the country.
Our sources say the October 30 meeting sealed the reconciliation moves between the two sides.
The emir was accompanied to the meeting by all senior members of the Kano Emirate council, while Vice President Namadi Sambo, the National Security Adviser, Sambo Dasuki, Attorney General, Mohammed Adoke, and the Foreign Affairs Minister, Aminu Wali also attended the meeting.
PREMIUM TIMES learnt that days after the meeting, the President asked the SSS to release the Emir’s passport as a further proof that he had buried the hatchet and was now ready for a warm relationship with the traditional ruler and his emirate
https://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/headlines/170799-jonathan-orders-sss-to-release-emir-sanusis-passport.html

Them still hold am?

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That's how to bring a stubborn 'somebody' to his knees. It worked with the arrogant emir. Now he should also learn to respect authority.
BTW this premium times reporter sabi how to follow talk o. See how he is linking events from 1500AD

I saw this coming.
Its completely in order

Why is he releasing it?? Make him use am cook soup naw.

I thought Okupe said they didn't seize the passport. Shameless lairs.

GEJ till 29th May, 2015

omenka:
Why is he releasing it?? Make him use am cook soup naw.

I thought Okupe said they didn't seize the passport. Shameless lairs.

Please check the phrase @bolded and edit. Thanks

Good move from the Presidency.

Endorsed!!!

gratieao:
In what appears the end of the fierce face-off between President Goodluck Jonathan and the Emir of Kano, Muhammad Sanusi II, the State Security Services has returned to the Emir his travelling documents seized from him on May 3 at the height of his disagreement with the President.
The Senior Special Assistant to Governor Rabiu Kwankwaso on Chieftaincy and Emirate Council Affairs, Tijjani Mailafiya, told journalists the SSS returned the Emir’s passport through the director in charge of its Kano state command, Bassey Itang.
Mr. Mailafiya commended the Federal Government for releasing the passport six months after it was seized at the Aminu Kano International Airport in Kano as the Emir made to board a Turkish airline flight for a planned trip to Saudi Arabia for lesser hajj.
He said with his passport now in his possession, the Emir was now better placed to serve his people locally and  abroad, when necessary.
The SSS had confiscated the Emir’s travelling documents as he made to board the May 3 11: 10p.m. Turkish Airlines flight to Turkey where he would have connected another flight to Saudi Arabia.
The agency’s action was a contravention of the April 3 judgment of a Federal High Court in Lagos, which restrained it and the Nigeria Police from arresting or harassing the then CBN Governor or seizing his passport.
Mr. Sanusi had sued after the SSS seized his passport on February 20 shortly after he arrived Lagos from Niger, where he had gone to attend a meeting of governors of central banks in the West African sub-region. He had then been suspended from office in absentia.
Shortly after his plane landed at the ExecuJet Terminal of the Murtala Muhammed International Airport in Lagos, he was accosted by SSS operatives who detained him briefly and insisted he must surrender his passport.
Speaking on the release of the passport Saturday, Mr. Mailafiya  thanked the Kano state government for being in the vanguard of those who pressed for the release of the document.
Some Nigerians may however see the handing over of the document as President Goodluck Jonathan’s direct gesture of saying everything is now alright between him and the Kano Emirate Council.
After nearly a year of bitter relations, President Jonathan and the Emir met on October 30 in Abuja and reconciled differences that once drove both men to the extremes of their offices.
Sanusi, a former governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, was fired by the president on February 20 after accusing the government of diverting $20 billion oil revenues.
The government denied the claim, and in turn, accused Mr. Sanusi of “financial recklessness”.
After leaving office, Mr. Sanusi was appointed the Emir of Kano in June, assuming one of the most powerful traditional stools in Nigeria.
His appointment by Kano State’s Governor Rabiu Kwankwaso, a member opposition All Progressives Congress, was opposed by the presidency which ordered the emir’s office blockaded for days.
The emir reportedly initiated peace moves, and the two men met for the first time in July during the breaking of the Muslim fast, a yearly routine in which the president meets top government officials who are Muslims and other prominent Islamic leaders in the country.
Our sources say the October 30 meeting sealed the reconciliation moves between the two sides.
The emir was accompanied to the meeting by all senior members of the Kano Emirate council, while Vice President Namadi Sambo, the National Security Adviser, Sambo Dasuki, Attorney General, Mohammed Adoke, and the Foreign Affairs Minister, Aminu Wali also attended the meeting.
PREMIUM TIMES learnt that days after the meeting, the President asked the SSS to release the Emir’s passport as a further proof that he had buried the hatchet and was now ready for a warm relationship with the traditional ruler and his emirate
https://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/headlines/170799-jonathan-orders-sss-to-release-emir-sanusis-passport.html

Descartes:


Please check the phrase @bolded and edit. Thanks

Oga/madam, I won't. Thanks you.

omenka:
Oga/madam, I won't. Thanks you.

Lair: A place inhabited by a wild animal, often a cave or a hole in the ground.
(figuratively) A place inhabited by a criminal or criminals, a superhero or a supervillain.


Liar: One who tells lie

So...where are we?

See wetin desperation fit cause? the quest for absolute power which corrupts absolutely often causeth a man to be vulnerable to arm twisting.

@seun 2020

jona ...thanks.....but it is already too late......

Jonathan is very shameless. Is it today that his Passport was ceased?

1. One was he not aware it was ceased? (Or he wants to tell us he did not instruct them to confiscate?)
2. Why order, who is he trying to impress?
3. Was this new order order a result of SSS investigations or is he issuing the order now because Sanusi is no longer in CBN to demand that he account for all the looted NNPC funds?
4. All the people Sanusi exposed, what has he done about it? (Oil marketers who stole from Nigeria, Minister of Petroleum who (subverted 3 Presidential Orders on Kerosene Subsidy, Paid out illegal money to people that did not import any oil, squandered money on frivolous Jet expenses, etc), among others.

Jonathan is a failure and is running a Stealing-Is-Not-Corruption administration. The Zoologist must Go!

Descartes:


Please check the phrase @bolded and edit. Thanks

Why should he check it, is it spelt wrongly, didn't Okupe lie OR Is the lie not Shameless enough for you?

egift:


Why should he check it, is it spelt wrongly, didn't Okupe lie OR Is the lie not Shameless enough?

Yea, they truly lie. You know politicians, they lie shameless to keep their loots.

But your mentor due to pride believes he is right

Descartes:


Lair: A place inhabited by a wild animal, often a cave or a hole in the ground.
(figuratively) A place inhabited by a criminal or criminals, a superhero or a supervillain.


Liar: One who tells lie

So...where are we?

I will not edit it. Move the hell on will you.

Descartes:
Yea, they truly lie. You know politicians, they lie shameless to keep their loots.

But your mentor due to pride believes he is right

I don't have a Mentor in life. Am my own man. So try another line, the one you posted is not cutting it.

This is daft.

Is better u don't talk coz it seen u brain is not in gud condition. I wonder hw u tink.som1 did wrong tin and u ar supporting him bcus is 4rm ur tribe or religion.u shld b ashame of urself coz wit ur tinking u ar a curse 2 dis gr8 country...

Gboliwe:
That's how to bring a stubborn 'somebody' to his knees. It worked with the arrogant emir. Now he should also learn to respect authority.
BTW this premium times reporter sabi how to follow talk o. See how he is linking events from 1500AD

My people mark this date, this tym btw now and 2015 Sanusi will publicly praise GEJ for his outstanding administration. And it will tagged a little miss understanding dat will vindicate GEJ for being accused for embezzling $20bill, which will make us me included to feel silly for joining in reading the F*UCKIN LIES these bunch of old FARTS tell us. APC and PDP are f*uckin us in the as*s with no decency to buy us dinner. So y was his passport seized? Has it bin investigated and found innocent, was his accusation ryt? These are the questions that will become urban legends. To the youths out there please, let's not be our fathers, let's stop hating each other while these old psychopaths rob us of our future like dey did most of our fathers.

egift:


I don't have a Mentor in life. Am my own man. So try another line, the one you posted is not cutting it.

That's good.

Happy Sunday

gerald09:
My people mark this date, this tym btw now and 2015 Sanusi will publicly praise GEJ for his outstanding administration. And it will tagged a little miss understanding dat will vindicate GEJ for being accused for embezzling $20bill, which will make us me included to feel silly for joining in reading the F*UCKIN LIES these bunch of old FARTS tell us. APC and PDP are f*uckin us in the as*s with no decency to buy us dinner. So y was his passport seized? Has it bin investigated and found innocent, was his accusation ryt? These are the questions that will become urban legends. To the youths out there please, let's not be our fathers, let's stop hating each other while these old psychopaths rob us of our future like dey did most of our fathers.

Verygood advice.
But some people may not heed to it

See how some not too good Journalist are gradually and shamelessly trying to sell us out. Who made the Kano Emir traditional Chief of Nigeria? The Seat of Emir of Kano is the highest traditional stool in Kano State, Not Nigeria. Let them get that into their stony heads

Descartes:
Good move from the Presidency.

All this last minute 'moves' by GEJ just to lobby for Kano state votes..? . The dude is gonna be in for a rude shock come 2015, if he thinks both SLS and OBJ have a short memory span like his..regarding how the presidency under the auspices of GEJ mocked and ridiculed them publicly..to the extent of associating the now Honourable Monarch as been amongst the funding powers behind BH. Revenge is best served cold...

And they said he didn't beg, haba! Wait till the other sick man abroad sells your party to pdp. Oh, am sorry I heard he is back in Nigeria.

gr8femfred:
Is better u don't talk coz it seen u brain is not in gud condition. I wonder hw u tink.som1 did wrong tin and u ar supporting him bcus is 4rm ur tribe or religion.u shld b ashame of urself coz wit ur tinking u ar a curse 2 dis gr8 country...

Post in Efik or Nupe language next time you want my attention. I hope to understand it better than when you post in this incomprehensible language.

Descartes:
That's good.

Happy Sunday

Somebody, say - uhuh, uhuh! Cheers!