A Kano High Court has restrained a man named Ikechukwu Akpudo from organising, assembling people and celebrating the New Yam Festival (Iwaji) or any other festival that has to do with the Igbo living in the state.
The festival was due to hold on Sunday.
Security officials stopped the organisers from holding the event after Justice Farouk Adamu issued the order during the weekend.
The court directed the Kano State Commissioner of Police Habu Sani to ensure Mr Akpudo and the general public comply with the order.
“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, September 27, 2020,” the order read.
