Members of Islamic sect, Shi’ites
on Tuesday vowed to continue their protest on Wednesday despite the killing of
their members.
The sect said this at the funeral
ceremony of their dead members in Suleja, Niger State.
A statement by Abdullahi Muhammad
Musa of the Academic Forum of the Islamic Movement, said: “Police carnage
against followers of Sheikh Zakzaky continues senselessly.
“Yesterday, at Federal
Secretariat, the bureaucratic seat of the Nigerian government, police gunned
down close to forty protesters, wounded scores and arrested very many.
“Senseless killing as this can
never put off a conceptual cause as the Islamic movement is, and the struggle
continues.
“The rites of funeral of the Killed took place
today at Suleja. Enough, hundreds of people attended the funeral prayer,
including members of their immediate families, friends and other people from
around the neighbourhood and far afield; and colourful wreaths were laid on
their coffins.
“Even though heavily armed forces
laid siege of brothers and sisters at Banex Plaza today, teargassing and
shooting live rounds of ammunition, free EL-Zakzaky protests will continue
nonstop unless our leader regain his freedom to go and tend for his seriously
deteriorating health condition.
“Trigger-happy security personnel
should know that senseless killing can never put us off the streets of Abuja,
it only adds more power to our elbow; no amount of cruelty and inhumanity will
deter us. Our leader should just be released. Tomorrow is another day for us,
and protests continue.”
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