The family of Ibraheem
El-Zakzaky, leader of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria (IMN), has alleged that a
heavy ransom has been paid to get medication across to him.
Badamasi Ya’akub, younger brother
of the detained IMN leader, said this while addressing a press conference on
behalf of the family in Abuja.
He dismissed the claim of the
Department of State Services (DSS) that the religious leader is being well
taken care of in detention.
Last week, Peter Afunanya,
spokesman of the DSS, had listed El-Zakzaky among some detainees who chose to
remain in DSS custody rather than being moved to Correctional facility.
Afunanya also said the detainees
were allowed to have access to television, newspapers gymnasium, telephone and
medical facilities.
But Ya’akub accused the secret
police of misleading the public with the “outlandish remarks”.
“Last Friday the 15th of November,
another statement was released by a public relations officer of the State
Security Service in which justifications were offered for the continued illegal
detention of what they referred to as notable Nigerians,” he said.
“With the names of Sheikh Ibraheem
El-Zakzaky, Colonel Sambo Dasuki and Omoyele Sowore were specifically
mentioned.
“The claim is that the SSS runs
what can be best described as 5 star level of accommodations of international
standards, for its illegally detained detainees; at the detainee’s explicit
request.
“Detention centres that are
preferable to all forms of correctional centres; designed to host alleged
criminals. According to them, these imprisoned individuals have food and water
provided by their families. Gymnasium facilities to exercise with and keep in
shape.
“The facilities provide access to
people and phones for communication, daily newspapers and television to remain
up to date, and pristine and prompt medical facilities to ensure standard
healthcare and welfare in accordance with international standards. All these
luxuries are of a matter of course at the Service’s expense; which is to say at
Nigerian’s expense.
“This is yet another in a long
line of outlandish claims made by the ‘Service’ to justify its documented role
as enforcers of law-breaking in the service of this lawless administration, led
by President Muhammadu Buhari.”
He said since the return of
El-Zakzaky from the botched Indian medical trip, there has been no phone
contact with him.
“No phone contact has been had
with Sheikh Zakzaky since their return from the aborted medical trip in India.
Sheikh Ibraheem El-Zakzaky receives no daily newspapers of any kind at any time
regularly or irregularly,” he said.
“With Certainty, I can say that
the last time he saw a functional Television screen was in his house in
December 2015 before it was attacked and demolished by the 1st division of the
Nigerian Army. As for the gymnasium and other 5-star level amenities mentioned
by the ‘Service’. All if any are paid for by El-Zakzaky himself.
“We have been extorted and
exploited to keep our flesh and blood as safe as much as we can. But the
straight truth is that they can’t read newspapers, they have no access to TV,
it takes mountains of hurdles for us to see them, and we pay a ransom worth of
money to just send medical supplies through.
“Critically there is no phone.
Every time an arm of the administration claims to have spent a certain amount;
it is more than over thrice what we have spent.
“We will be readying some LCD
TVs, subscribing to Daily Newspapers deliveries, Phone handsets with multiple
SIM slots, SSS family request service and refund programmes, so the millions
extorted can be proven to have not been spent in vain.”
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