Islamic Movement in Nigeria, IMN, otherwise known as Shiites,
has lambasted the Governor of Kaduna State, Mallam Nasir El-Rufai, describing
him as wicked over his treatment of civil servants in the State.
El-Rufai had fired Kaduna State University’s lecturers,
health workers and others who joined the Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC) strike
in the state.
He had also declared the National President of NLC and 17
others wanted.
The Federal Government through the Minister of Labour and
Employment, Chris Ngige waded into the crisis between the state government and
the NLC and invited both parties in the dispute to an emergency meeting.
Following the emergency meeting, the NLC suspended its five
days warning strike in the state as announced by Wabba.
However, IMN says it is duty-bound to condemn the strong-arm
tactics deployed by Elrufai against the peaceful NLC protests during the five
days warning protest.
“If not for the fact that Islam abhors injustice and implore
adherents to speak out against injustice anywhere, anytime, more so injustice
to one is an injustice to all, we wouldn’t have bothered to declare our stance
on this preventable face-off between the Governor and NLC,” the group said in a
statement signed by its Spokesman, Ibrahim Musa and made available to DAILY
POST on Friday.
“It is unfortunate the way and manner the embattled Kaduna
Governor declared Wabba and 17 others wanted for alleged Economic Sabotage and
attacks on public infrastructure under the Miscellaneous Offences Act and even
disclosed that there was a handsome reward for anyone who could give
information on Wabba’s current whereabouts.
“This strong-arm tactics employed by the Governor is not new
to us in the Islamic Movement at the height of our struggle for justice to
Sheikh Zakzaky 2016 to date.
“Also, hired armed thugs with knives, sticks and stones,
attacked the peaceful protest of the labour union in Kaduna State on Tuesday
18/05/2021. If not that the Police and the DSS in Kaduna had apprehended some
of the sponsored thugs, thereby protecting protesters and averting bloodshed,
the story would have been different by now.
“However apprehending them without bringing them and their
sponsors to book will only be a waste of state resources. Their sponsors must
be exposed and brought to book if the law enforcement agencies are serious.
“We are not strange to such barbarism of Governor Elrufai.
It is on record that times without number when we embark on peaceful protests
in the streets of Kaduna, such hoodlums are employed to spill our blood for no
reason. Infact it is on record that we have lost at least two people to such
gruesome ploys.
“KDSG even resorted to vile propaganda when it likened “the
actions of the NLC as equivalent to the actions of the bandits kidnapping and
menacing our citizens. Bandits illegally use arms, but the NLC is deploying mob
action for exactly the same ends,” as claimed the state in a press statement.
“We will not forget when the Governor was busy trumpeting
that the Islamic Movement is worse than Boko Haram at the slightest
opportunity. His crude tactics have always been to black paint innocent
citizens to deceptively sway public support to his side.
“And to cap it all up the Governor announced that he had
fired Kaduna State University’s lecturers who joined the Nigerian Labour
Congress (NLC) strike in the state, as ‘KDSG will not tolerate criminal acts
disguised as industrial action.’
“The government also announced the dismissal of all nurses
below Grade Level 14 for the illegal strike. If this is not the way of fascist
regimes, what is it? Certainly, this is most undemocratic and extremely
autocratic.
“Finally, we hereby salute the courage of the NLC and its
leadership for resisting the evil plans of the wicked Governor of sacking the
common masses from their places of work.
“We also hope by now members of the public must have
realized what we have been saying all along, since the Zaria massacre of
December 2015, that this regime is brutal, aggressive in its actions and
extremely egocentric.
“It doesn’t care about the lives, property and welfare of
the citizens. Had it been we were listened to, we might not have reached the
sorry state the nation is in now.
“Hence we reiterate our demand for justice to Sheikh
Zakzaky, his family, followers and all the victims of the Zaria massacre, which
is nothing short of their immediate release from illegal detention.”
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