Court restrains CBN, AGF, others from withholding allocations to Kano’s 44 LGAs

From Desmond Mgboh, Kano

A Kano State High Court presided over by Justice Ibrahim Musa-Muhammad has granted an order of perpetual injunction restraining the CBN, the Accountant General of the Federation and Revenue Mobilization Allocation and Fiscal Commission from withholding allocations of the 44 LGAs of the state.

Delivering the judgment in the case on Monday, Justice Ibrahim Musa-Muhammad resolved the case in favour of all the reliefs sought by the applicants in the case

He affirmed that by virtue of the decision of the Supreme Court of Nigeria in suit No SC/CV/343/2024 Attorney General of Abia State and 35 others, the Kano State Local Government Council Electoral Laws 2022, the Accountant General of the Federation, the Central bank of Nigeria and the RMAFC are under a duty to disburse monthly allocations to the 44 LGAs as democratically elected Local Government Councils.

He declared that withholding these allocations would undermine the fundamental rights of the residents, inhabitants in the 44 Local government Councils, as guaranteed by the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic Of Nigeria (As Amended).

The applicants are the Chairman of NULGE, Ibrahim Muhd, Ibrahim Uba Shehu, Ibrahim Shehu Abubakar, Usman Isa, Sarki Alhaji Kurawa and Malam Usman Imam.

Represented by their counsel, Bashir Yusuf-Muhammad, they had filed a motion exparte dated Nov.1, which sought the court to restrain the respondents from withholding or delaying allocations meant for 44 local government areas of the state.