Suhaila Zakzaky, daughter of
Ibraheem El-Zakzaky, leader of the Islamic Movement of Nigeria (IMN), has
insisted the group will continue its protesters till her father is released.
Suhaila said this in reaction to
a statement from Ibrahim Musa, president of the IMN media forum, that the
protests have been suspended.
Musa had said the suspension,
which came after the federal government banned the group, was as a result of
“some new openings into the resolution of the problems” involving the
proscription of its activities.
But reacting via a video she
released on Wednesday, Suhaila said Musa cannot speak on behalf of the group.
She said his comments are not the
official view of the Islamic movement and “the protests are continuing.”
“Even as I speak right now,
earlier today, there was a protest in Abuja and there will be tomorrow,” she
said.
“And there will continue to be on
every weekday. I just wanted to clarify because I saw news agencies stating
that spokesperson of this movement released the statement.
“First of all, the Islamic
movement has no such thing as a spokesman. And the person who wrote this
article (is) the chairman of the media forum; the media forum, just like the
numerous forums we have in the Islamic movement, is just a forum that is there
for people within that field to have their own space and activities within the
Islamic movement.”
She cautioned against
“frustrating” the efforts of the protests, adding: “This person (Musa) has
nothing to do with the people organising this protest that have been going on
in Abuja and will continue to go on till El-Zakzaky is freed.”
Watch video below:
The IMN members have been protesting the continued detention of El-Zakzaky who was arrested after the group clashed with a convoy of the chief of army staff in Kaduna state in 2015.
There have been court orders
granting him bail but the government insisted on detaining him before the
Kaduna state government took over his trial.
The federal government proscribed
their activities after a federal high court in Abuja declared the group a
terrorist organisation.
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