The Zazzau Emirate Council on Tuesday, suspended the Marafan Yamman Zazzau, Alhaji Mustapha Adamu, for flogging an alleged homosexual in the ancient city of Zaria, in Kaduna State.
The Council’s Information and Communications Officer, Abdullahi Aliyu, said in a statement that Adamu’s indefinite suspension was with immediate effect.
The statement explained that the Marafan Yamman Zazzau’s was suspended for taking laws into his hands by flogging one Yusuf Yahaya (SABO) of Unguwan Magajiya Zaria City with sixty strokes of the cane.
The statement therefore warned that Zazzau Emirate would not condone any act that violated laws and orders from any traditional title holder in the community.
It advised traditional title holders to always refer cases before them to the constituted authorities for proper adjudication rather than taking the laws into their hands.
The emirate also assured the general public that it would take any act of injustice by traditional title holders against its subject seriously.
The Suspended Ubaidullah Marafan Yamman Zazzau, however, told newsmen that he disciplined Yusuf Yahaya (SABO) by giving him 60 lashes because he caught him having carnal knowledge with a “small boy” behind his residence.
He expressed dismay at the hasty decision of the Emirate council in suspending him.
The title holder added that he expected the emirate council to refer him to the constituted authority for violating the laws rather than suspending him.
Justifying his action, he noted that the culprit is “his son”, adding that he had the right to discipline him when he “goes wrong.”
The embattled and suspended title holder, therefore, accused some members of the emirate council of masterminding his ordeal.