By Charles Igbo
The humiliation of the deposed Emir of Kano, Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, is still continuing.
From living in mansions, Sanusi home has been reduced to a two-bedroom Local Government house in Awe, Nasarawa state. That is his new place of abode, to which he had been banished to.
A private jet, sent by his friends in Lagos, was provided for him, on his dethronement, to fly him and members of his immediate family to Lagos to spend his life in exile.
The former Emir is a Lagos boy. He is an old student of the prestigious King’s College, Lagos, and regards Lagos as his second home.
But in order to inflict a maximum punishment on him, his persecutors rejected the offer from his friends, and his desire to live in Lagos.
Only his immediate family boarded the flight to Lagos.
The government, instead, provided another jet, which flew him to Abuja. He was then subjected to a-seven hour journey by road to Loko, Nasarawa state, a rural area deprived of every social amenity.
But 24 hours later, a helicopter was provided to fly him to government house, Lafia. From there, he was driven to Awe, where he was shown the two bedroom house, property of the Local government, as his new residence. The Emirs of Lagos and Awe were in hand to show him his new home.
His relocation to Awe is a consequence of the poor state of Loko.
But even then, a two bedroom house for a man of Sanusi’s stature is like rubbing pepper on a fresh sore.
A blue blood, Sanusi was born into wealth. A certified silver spoon kid, his grandfather was also a deposed Emir who died in Azare, where he was banished to.
He was the Group Managing Director of First Bank PLC, before he was tapped to be the Central Bank Governor.
Thereafter, he became the Emir of Kano.
He is, therefore, used to living in mansions.
Now, unless reprieve comes his way, and his banishment is lifted, either through the Courts, or pressure from the local and international community, which is mounting, he is condemned to spending the rest of his life in a two-bedroom, uncomfortable abode in rural Awe.
