Garba Musa Kwankwaso, the youthful brother of former Kano State governor Rabiu Kwankwaso, has filed a lawsuit towards Governor Abba Yusuf over a land allocation dispute in Kwankwasiyya Metropolis, Every day Nigerian stories.
Garba Kwankwaso, seeks an interlocutory injunction to stop the governor and different defendants from taking any motion on the land till the case is determined.
Court docket paperwork present that the defendants embody the Kano State Commissioner for Land and Bodily Planning, the Kano State City Planning and Improvement Authority (KNUPDA), the Lawyer Common of Kano State, and unidentified people.
The land, which spans over 100 hectares, was initially allotted to WAECO Nigeria Restricted throughout Rabiu Kwankwaso’s administration however was revoked by his successor, Abdullahi Ganduje.
Investigations by the Kano State Public Grievance and Anti-Corruption Fee in 2017 revealed that WAECO, linked to Rabiu Kwankwaso and his brother, was not a authorized entity on the time of the allocation, main the company to suggest revocation.
Subsequently, Ganduje reassigned a part of the land to Mallam Kato Sq. and returned the remainder to the unique house owners, together with the Dantata household.
Governor Abba Yusuf has resisted calls to reallocate the land to WAECO Nigeria Restricted, prompting Garba Kwankwaso to take authorized motion.
In his utility to a Kano Excessive Court docket, Kwankwaso sought an order to stop the defendants from getting into, creating, or reallocating the land pending the end result of the case.
Justice Usman Na’abba granted the order on November 13 and adjourned the case to November 27 for additional hearings.
