Three months after he was deposed from the throne he sat on for about six years, Sanusi will face fresh anti-corruption charges. He had requested the court to stop the four defendants from probing him on the alleged land racketeering as he argued that the planned investigation was against his fundamental human right.

However the judge maintained that the anti-graft commission and its chairman had the jurisdiction and powers to investigate Sanusi on the matter. Justice Lewis had in March granted an ex parte order filed by Sanusi to restrict the commission from inviting and investigating him on the land matter pending the hearing and determination of the originating summons.

The anti-graft agency had invested on the embattled Sanusi a Right of Occupancy CON-RES-2016-503, which was reportedly sold illegally by the Kano emirate council to Family Home Fund Limited at the instance of Sanusi as the Emir.

According to the commission, investigation also revealed that all the alleged illegal transactions for the sale of the landed properties at Darmanawa, Hotoro and Bubbugaje belonging to the emirate was done by the trio of Shehu Dankadai (Sarkin Shanu), Sarki Ibrahim (Makanan Kano) and Mustapha Yahaya (Dan Isan Lapai) based on the alleged instruction of Sanusi.

The resurgence of the land racketeering suit came after the same high court dismissed the allegation of misappropriation of about N4.5 billion against the deposed emir.