The removal of the revered emir of Kano raises questions about the continued role of Nigeria's traditional rulers.
named in TIME magazine's list of influential peoplesacked for alleging that $20bn revenue was missingThose close to him say the emir expected his removal but not his banishment to neighbouring Nasarawa state which his lawyers described as an"archaic practice" of the colonial era.
"There is no way you can reconcile the feudal gathering of traditional kinship with the application of a modern republican constitution," said Dr Jare Oladosun, an associate professor of history at Nigeria's Obafemi Awolowo University."You cannot have both, only one," he said. Olutayo Adeshina, a professor of history at the University of Lagos, said that by pledging to respect the culture"by protecting, preserving and promoting traditional values", the Nigerian constitution recognises the important role of traditional leaders.
"If they are not relevant, the politicians would ignore them. But you ignore them at your own peril," he said.
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