A Kano High Court has stopped the celebration of the New Yam Festival (Iwaji 2020) in Kano following a court order by Justice Farouk Lawan Adamu.
The new yam festival celebrated by the Igbos was halted on Sunday as security officials prevented the organisers from staging the event.
Daily Times gathered that the court had restrained one Ikechukwu Oliver Akpudo from organising, assembling people and celebrating the Iwaji or any other festival that has to do with Igbos living in Kano.
The court directed the Kano State Commissioner of Police, Habu Sani, to ensure Akpudo, other Igbos and the general public comply with the court order.
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“Order of interim injunction hereby retrains the defendant (Akpudo), whether by himself, through any of his agents, servants, successors or privies, from presiding over, supervising, convening, assembling, summoning, celebrating, organising and partaking in a New Yam Festival (Iwaji Festival 2020) scheduled to hold on Sunday (yesterday) September 27, 2020.”
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