Members of Islamic Movement in
Nigeria (IMN) have vowed to continue their daily protest on the streets of the
federal capital territory (FCT) until Ibrahim Zakzaky, their leader, is freed.
Last week, the police had
restricted all protests in Abuja to the Unity Fountain following clashes
between the sect and security agencies.
But the Shi’ites dared the police
to be ready to kill more of their members who will be out on the streets.
Ibrahim Musa, a member of IMN who
spoke to journalists in Abuja accused the federal government of refusing to
obey the court order which freed Zakzaky and restored his fundamental human
rights.
“Why is government hunting
somebody that is out to fight for his or her right? You have killed more than a
thousand of his (Zakzaky’s) followers and put them in a mass grave. You keep on
violating the law of the land and you think nobody should come out and
challenge you? That is bad. This shows that the government of is oppressing its
citizens. And you do not expect me to cross my legs and allow President
Muhammadu Buhari to kill my leader,” he said.
“The protest will continue, and
if they do not want to see us on the street, government should free our leader.
If they want to kill, they should go ahead and kill. We are ready to die for
our leader. Failure to free our leader, the government should get ready to kill
more of us.
“The protests on the streets of
Abuja are as a result of the government’s disregard for the judgment of a court
of competent jurisdiction, the Federal High Court Abuja, which freed the
revered leader of the movement from an illegal detention described by the
government as ‘protective custody’.”
Musa also dismissed the claim by
the federal government that it is not involved in the ongoing trial of Zakzaky.
The IMN leader has been in the
custody of the Department of State Services (DSS) since December 2015.
Musa said Buhari’s administration
cannot be exonerated from the “attacks of the armed forces on members of the
group”.
“It is not possible under every
logical reasoning to exonerate President Buhari from the genocide perpetrated
by the Nigerian Army under his command as the Commander-in-Chief, where over
1,000 unarmed members of the movement, including men, women and children, were
killed from December 12 to 14, 2015,” he said.
“The government has declared
illegally burying 347 members of the movement in a mass grave at Mando Village
in Kaduna after the mass murder, in violation of the Geneva Convention and
every known law in the country.
“The movement has never been
violent or taken over streets, as falsely claimed by the presidency. The
Islamic Movement has been in existence for about 40 years. It is on record that
the movement has been peaceful and has never resorted to violence.
“It is only when government sends
its police or Army to attack the peaceful processions that fracas sets in,
courtesy of the security agents planted in the movement. We once again
dissociate ourselves from any act of brigandage during our protests on the
streets.”
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