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19/07/2019

Muhammad Darazo's reply on Garba Shehu's press statement

The press statement shared by the Presidency today is a show of shame! You are indirectly telling the world that you have used everything in your reach to stop the protests and failed.

Recall that the same Garba Shehu insisted that Sheikh Zakzaky was in "protective Custody and his wife is keeping him company". Unfortunately, this shameless old liar just drop this shameful statement.

Since December 2016, the Federal High Court in Abuja ruled in favor of the Shaikh and ordered for his release and payment of compensation together with his wife. The Government defied the order and kept the Sheikh for more than one year before the kangaroo court case of Kaduna state against the Shaikh and his wife began.

After killing as much as they could, arresting and torturing whomever they could and the failed media campaign against the Islamic Movement, the Presidency have now resorted to shameless attempts to vindicate Buhari, the Criminal.

Garba Shehu and the Presidency cannot be bold enough to tell the world that they have used whatever is in their reach to halt the Abuja struggle to demand freedom for Sheikh Zakzaky, unfortunately all efforts yield a negative result as the more they touch us, the stronger we become.

For the information of Garba Shehu and the Presidency, all their evil acts against the Islamic Movement were recorded and they will definitely pay an expensive price for that. Freedom for our leader is our first and most important demand for now, but until Justice is served for all the crimes committed by Buhari, the criminal and his puppets, our protests have come to stay in Abuja.

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06/07/2019

*KUNGIYAR SULHUNTAWA DA KIYAYE HAKKI*
(INITIATIVE FOR CONCILIATION AND RIGHT PROTECTION (ICRP))

TAKARDAR SANARWAR MANEMA LABARAI

Alhamis, 4 ga yuli, 2019

*Rashin lafiyar Jagoran Yan Shia, Shaikh Zakzaky Da Mai Dakinsa: Mafita Ga Gwamnatin Shugaba Muhammadu Buhari*

Barkan ku da Safiya Maza da Mata.

Muna sane da cewa a ranar 22 ga watan Junairu, 2019, tawagar Lauyoyin da ke tsaya wa Shaikh Zakzaky wanda ake tsare da shi tare da Mai dakinsa Malama Zeenah Ibraheem sun rubuta takardar neman a bayar da cikakkiyar dama ga wadanda suke karewa ta ganin Likitocinsu domin yin gwaje-gwaje na lafiyarsu da gaggawa.

Biyo bayan hakan, babbar kotun Jihar Kaduna, wadda mai Sharia G. Kurada ke jagoranta ya amince da wannan bukata na cewa a ba wa wadanda suke karewar damar su zabi tare da kawo likitocin da za su duba lafiyar tasu.

A ranar 25 ga Afrilu, 2019, tawagar kwararrun Likitoci da masana ilimin kiwon lafiya karkashin Jagorancin Hukumar Kare Hakkin Biladama ta Musulunci (IHRC) s**a samu damar ganin Shaikh Zakzaky da Mai dakinsa Malama Zeenah a karon farko, a inda s**a gabatar da gwaje-gwaje na lafiya ga Shaikh Zakzaky da mai dakin nasa.

Sakamakon da binciken ya nuna abu ne mai matukar tayar da hankali. Tawagar Likitoci ta ICRP ta samu wasu bayanai dangane da sakamakon binciken, wanda wani bangare na sakamakon ya bayyana cewa, dangane da Shaikh Ibraheem Zakzaky, ya samu matsalar toshewar jijiyoyin da ke kai jini zuwa ga Zuciya (Myocardial Ischemia and left ventricular hypertrophy) matsalar da ke da matukar hadarin kamuwa da bugawar zuciya, ciwon da ka iya sabbaba lalacewar jijiyoyi da lakar jikin dan Adam.

Dangane da idonsa na dama kuwa, sakamakon binciken ya nuna cewa idon ya kamu da matsananciyar cutar rashin gani (Glaucoma), cutar da ke takaita ganin dan Adam da sauran lamurra yanayin da ka iya sabbaba cutar makanta ta din-dindin. Idonsa na hagu kuwa, sakamakon binciken ya nuna cewa idon ba shi ne kwata-kwata (Anophthalmia).

Haka nan kuma, sakamakon binciken ya nuna kololuwar matsananciyar gubar dalma da ke cikin jikin Shaikh Zakzaky. Binciken ya kuma nuna irin gubar dalma da ke cikin jinin nasa ya wuce kima. Lamarin da ke nuna irin munin da ke tattare da barin ci gaba da yaduwar wannan cuta wadda ka iya kai matakin da ba za a iya shawo kanta ko magance ta ba.

Dangane da rashin lafiyar mai dakin Shaikh Zakzaky kuwa, Malama Zeenah Ibraheem, sakamakon binciken ya bayyana cewa tana dauke da cutar Sinus arrhythmia, yanayin da ka iya sabbaba gaggawa ko nawar gudanar jini zuwa ga Zuciya. Matsanancin ciwon gwiwowi, wanda ke da tsananin cutarwa da kuma sabbaba kamuwa da cutar gurgunta, yanayin da ke da matukar bukatar samun kulawar Likitoci ta gaggawa.

Idan aka waiwayi tarihi za a tarar da cewa, kafin a dawo da Shakh Zakzaky zuwa garin Kaduna, inda ake ci gaba da yi masa haramtacciyar tsarewa ta zalunci, mahukunta sun yi watsin-baro da shaanin lafiyarsa har sai da ta kai ga ya kamu da ciwon bugawar jini, haka nan ita ma
Mai dakinsa ba ta samu kyakkyawar kulawa ba har sai da ya kasance ta zama ba ta iya tafiya da kafafuwanta.

Dukkanin su biyu sun tsira da miyagun raunuka na harbin bindiga a yayin harin taaddanci da Jamian tsaro Sojojin tarayyar Nijeriya s**a kaddamar a gidansu da ke Unguwar Gyallesu, Zariya a cikin watan Disambar shekarar 2015.

Me hakan yake nufi ne? Ya kamata gwamnati ta fito ta yi wa yan Nijeriya bayanin dalilin aikata dukkanin wadannan abubuwa wadanda s**a saba wa kundin tsarin mulkin Kasa ga Shaikh Zakzaky.

*SHAWARARMU GA SHUGABA MUHAMMADU BUHARI*

Halin rashin lafiyar da Shaikh Zakzaky da mai dakinsa Malama Zenah suke ciki a halin yanzu yanayi ne wanda yake tsananin bukatar samun kulawa ta lafiya kuma da gaggawa ta hanyar mika su ga yanuwansu ta yadda za su samu ingantacciyar kula ta lafiya a Kasar waje kamar yadda Likitocinsu da s**a duba lafiyarsu s**a bayyana.

Halin rashin lafiyarsu na ci gaba da tabarbarewa a sakamakon sakaci da kuma kin yin abin da ya dace a kan lokaci, wanda kin ba shi damar ganin kwararrun likitoci ya sabbaba a tsawon kimanin shekaru hudu da ake tsare da shi ba bisa kaida ba.

Muna kishin kasarmu Nijeriya, don haka ba za mu so duk wani yanyi ba wanda ka iya sabbaba rasuwar Shaikh Zakzaky a hannun mahukuntan Nijeriya ba.

Duk yan Kasa suna da yancin rayuwa da kuma samun kula ta lafiyarsa. Wannan ke nan yana nufin babu wani, ko da kuwa gwamnati ce, wanda ya isa ya hana su wannan yanci, wanda kundin tsarin mulkin Kasa ya tabbatar masu da shi. Hakan kuma yana nufin ya zama wajibi ga gwamnati ta dauki kwakkwaran mataki wanda ya dace domin bayar da kariya ga rayukan dukkanin jamaa ta hanyar yin dokokin da za su bayar da tsaro ga duk wani wanda rayuwarsa ke cikin hatsari.

Wannan wani bangare ne na yancinsu na rayuwa wanda dokar Kasa ta ba su. Wannan yanci ne na dan Adam wanda kundin tsarin mulkin Kasa ya ba wa duk dan Kasa a sashi na 33 na kundin tsarin mulkin tarayyar Nijeriya (CFRN) na shekarar 1999 wanda aka yi wa kwaskwarima da kuma Kuduri na 4 na ‘African Charter’ dangane da hakkin biladama da kuma yancin mutane (Ratification and Enforcement) Act, Cap, A10, dokokin tarayyar Nijeriya (LFN), na shekarar 2004.

Daga karshe muna masu bayyana cewa, ya zama tilas Shugaban Kasa ya dauki mataki da gaggawa.

SA HANNU:
Dr. Yahaya Abubakar
Barr. Geoffery Netochukwu
Comrade Godwin Ekoja
Barrister Bala Hassan
Comrade Ahmad S Isa
Prince Adelaja Adeoye

Domin Sanarwa da kuma daukar matakin da ya dace.

An aika kwafe ga:
Majalisar Dinkin Duniya
Kungiyar Tarayyar Turai
Kungiyar Tarayyar Afirika
Majalisar zartarwa ta tarayyar Nijeriya
Shugaban Majalisar Dattawa ta Nijeriya
Shugaban Majalisar Wakilai ta Tarayyar Nijeriya

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Fassarar Zaharaddeen Sani Malumfashi

30/06/2019

SANARWAR MANEMA LABARAI

*Duk wani yunkuri na amfani da tashin hankali a Abuja da sauran wurare ba da yawunmu ba ne*

Harkar Musulunci a Nijeriya ta lura da wasu wallafe-wallafe da ke karakaina a shafukan sada zumunta na zamani da ke ikirarin cewa daga Litinin 01/07/2019, Abuja za ta fuskanci gagarumin tashin hankali yayin muzaharorin neman a saki Shaikh Zakzaky da aka dade ana yi. Dangane da haka, muna fadi da babbar murya kuma a sarari cewa, ba ruwanmu da duk wata barazanar yin amfani da tashin hankali a yayin da muke neman a saki Jagoranmu Shaikh Ibraheem Zakzaky da matarsa Malama Zeenah Ibrahim da sauran ‘yan’uwa musulmi da gwamnati take tsare da su dangane da kisan kiyashin Zariya na watan Disamban 2015.

Mun fada sau shurin masaki, kuma mun nuna a aikace a tsawon shekarun nan cewa, amfani da tashin hankali da kuma yin barazana, da ba da wa’adi, ba halinmu ba ne, kuma bai taba zama daya daga cikin hanyoyin da mukan bi don cimma muradunmu ba. Hakan kuma ba zai sauya ba.

Yadda muka rika bin hanyoyin lumana a fafutukarmu na neman ‘yancin Shaikh Zakzaky a tsawon shekaru tun bayan kisan kiyashin da gwamnati ta shirya kuma ta aiwatar ya isa ya tabbatar da cewa, mu ba ‘yan tashin hankali ba ne, duk kuwa da irin girma ko munin takalar mu da aka yi.

Shaikh Zakzaky bai taba yin kira zuwa ga tashin hankali ba, don haka duk wanda aka ga yana bin tafarkin tashin hankali ba zai kasance daga cikin mu ba. Ta yiwu gwamnati ce kawai ke neman shafa wa Harkar Musulunci kashin kaji, don su samu hujjar kare gazawar Buhari a dukkan bangarorin mulkin kasar nan.

Amma muna so jama’a su sani cewa, za mu ci gaba da muzaharorinmu na lumana, tare da bin duk wata hanya ta lumana da ta dace don neman a yi mana adalci, kamar yadda muka saba yi har sai mun fallasa irin munanan cin zarafin ‘yan kasa da gwamnatin nan take yi. Ba za mu yi kasa a gwiwa ba wajen neman hakkokinmu, wadanda hatta tsarin mulkin kasar nan ya kare mana su.

A karshe, muna kara yin kiran a gaggauta sakin Jagoranmu Shaikh Zakzaky da matarsa, wadanda halin rashin lafiyarsu a kullum kara tabarbarewa yake yi, musamman irin guban da aka ruwaito an yi yunkurin sa musu a yayin da suke tsare, baya ga guban da ke jikinsu na burbushin harsasan da aka harbe su da su. Kasantuwarsu cikin koshin lafiya abu ne mai matukar muhimmanci a gare mu, kuma Buhari za mu dora wa laifin duk wani mummunan abin da ya sami Shaikh Zakzaky da matarsa.

SA HANNUN:
IBRAHIM MUSA
SHUGABAN DANDALIN YADA LABARAI NA HARKAR MUSULUNCI A NIGERIA
Skype: Ibrahim.musa42
30/06/2019

11/11/2018

*FREE SHEIKH ZAKZAKY NOW!*

The 1st of Rabiul Awwal, 1440, (5th, November 2018), marks three years since the Nigerian Army, under the President Muhammadu Buhari regime, launched a murderous attack on the Islamic Movement in Nigeria with the intention of killing the revered leader of the Movement Sheikh Ibraheem Yaqoub Zakzaky, dispersing members of the movement and outlawing it.

This gruesome attack led to the continued illegal incarceration of the leader despite the serious health condition he is facing and even as a Federal High Court has ordered for his unconditional release and compensation. Three years is not three days, therefore the way the federal government is handling the matter is unfortunate and something that should be condemned by all and sundry.

That is why we have come out again today to remind members of the public and the international community on the heinous crime committed against our pious leader, Sheikh Zakzaky and the genocide against his followers.

It has become pertinent for us to come out en masse to protest since the Federal Government and some state governments especially that of Kaduna are not ready to ensure that justice prevails. It should be noted that the authorities holding our leader captive have failed to convince citizens and the international community on why the continuous and prolonged detention, thereby denying him the opportunity to seek medical attention.

Even without recalling the oppressive acts committed against us in the past three years, it is known to all that three sons of our Leader and 1000+ of his followers were killed extra-judicially in Zaria during the brutal clampdown from 12 th to 14th of December 2015. His residence was burnt and demolished. Likewise the Islamic centre he established and almost other buildings that linked to him in one way or the other. These acts of inhumanity can only be described as brute oppression!

Since Saturday, 1st Rabiul Awwal, 1437, the day a contingent of the Nigerian Ar

27/10/2018

PRESS STATEMENT

*At least 10 killed as Army fires on Religious procession at Zuba, Abuja*

-Islamic Movement in Nigeria

The Islamic Movement in Nigeria has confirmed the killing of at least ten of its members at Zuba, in the outskirts of Abuja by some soldiers of the Nigerian Army, today Saturday, 27/10/2018, who were in a peaceful religious procession of Arba’een from Suleja.

The army went away with the co**se of three of the victims, one of the victim’s co**se has been identified as Abdul’aziz Maigana, who until his demise was with the members of the Islamic Movement in Suleja.

In a press statement released by Ibrahim Musa, the President Media Forum of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria, the Movement vehemently condemned the action of the security agents, as “unwarranted, since the march has been peaceful."

The statement further added, "In fact it was being rounded up for the day, when soldiers opened fire on the peaceful marchers without any provocation whatsoever.”

“The fact that a similar Arba’een march was conducted in Kano along the Kano-Zaria highway for two days without any incident, is enough a pointer to the peaceful nature of the annual religious rites. Similar Arba’een mourning processions are currently ongoing in Katsina and Kaduna states without any incident,” according to the press statement.

The Islamic Movement then cautioned the security agents to stop harassing its members, “since today is just the beginning of the peaceful mourning march on foot, and it is expected that more people may join the mass peaceful march, which will culminate in the grand Arba’een day, to be marked on Tuesday, 30 October, 2018, the same day it would be commemorated worldwide.”

“If the security agents are trigger happy, then they should save their arms and bullets to other parts of the country engulfed in violence, but not on peaceful marchers carrying no arms with them,” according to the press statement.

SIGNED BY

IBRAHIM MUSA

PRESIDENT MEDIA FORUM OF ISLAMIC

20/09/2018

Why do Muslims remember Ashura?

On the 10th day of the month of Muharram 61AH, a tragic event took place in the southern part of Iraq at a place known as Karbala on the bank of the Euphrates river. A large army of 30,000 that had been mobilized by the Umayyad regime, besieged Imam Hussein, the grandson of the holy prophet Muhammad, and 71 of his loyal companions and forced them to pay allegiance to the corrupt caliph Yazid and to submit to his authority. The small group resisted and a severe battle took place in which the Imam and all his companions were killed, and his female family members were taken as war prisoners.

Who was this small group? The leader of the small band of men who were martyred in Karbala was none other than Hussein, son of Ali ibn Abi Talib and Fatima daughter of the Prophet, and grandson of the Prophet, for whom the Prophet once said, “Hussain is from me and I am from Hussein. May Allah love whoever loves Hussein.” Accompanying this small group were Hussein's immediate family, relatives, and close companions.

Karbala and the day of Ashura. Imam Hussein was certain that by awakening the misery lives of the Muslim nation, under the tyrannical rule of Yazid, was to sacrifice his blood for the sake of defending Islam. The people of Kufa (a town in southern Iraq) sent over 12,000 letters to Imam Hussein inviting him to their city in support for his leadership. Imam Hussein remarked when he left his hometown with his family and companions for the last time, “I am not rising against Yazid as an insolent or an arrogant person, or as a mischief-monger, or tyrant. I have risen against Yazid as I seek to reform the Ummah (Islamic nation) of my grandfather. I wish to bid the good and forbid the evil.”

Before reaching the city of Kufa, Imam Hussein's small group was intercepted by the large army of Umayyad. The army quickly surrounded and trapped Imam Hussein, his family, and companions in the desert plains called Karbala. Within 10 days, Imam’s camp was subject to hunger, thirst, and brutal killings. The 10th of Muharram marked the end of the tragedy but the beginning of enlightenment. While praying, Imam Hussein was killed, his body trampled beneath the hoofs of horses and his head cut off, speared, and paraded before his captivated family and a few companions, and through the villages and towns as they were taken to Damascus and his head presented at the feet of Yazid.

Why do Muslims remember Ashura? Imam Hussein sacrificed his life along with 72 believing men, all for the sake of truth over falsehood. The tragedy of Karbala represents a conscious confrontation and a courageous resistance for a sacred cause. The whole nation had failed to stand up to Yazid. They had succumbed to his will, and deviation and regression towards the pre-Islamic ways that were increasing.

Passiveness by Hussein in this situation would have meant the end of Islam, as we know it. Imam Hussein took it upon himself the responsibility of the whole nation. The greatest tragedy was he stood up for the noblest of causes—the defense of Islam, and was killed in such a cruel manner.

It is for this reason that the sacrifice of Hussein is commemorated annually throughout the Muslim world. The tragic event shook the very foundations of the Muslim nation, stirred their consciousness, and became a beacon of light and guidance. The 10th of Muharram, Ashura serves as a reminder of the sacrifice of the family of the Prophet. It also makes Muslims aware of the people, then and now, who tried to destroy Islam and the family of the Prophet and all that they stood for, as well as those who watched, listened, and did nothing.

Read more about Ashura in this digital age at: https://im.imamhussain.org/english/articles/5533

Academic Forum of the Islamic Movement, A.B.U, Zaria Chapter
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Pictures: Ashura procession in Bauchi, Abuja and Zaria.

26/08/2018

Who is the terrorist? IMN, Buhari regime or faceless NGOs

By Abdulmumin Giwa

I was shocked when my attention was drawn to a claim by a faceless NGO that goes by the name ‘Coalition of Arewa CSO for Progress and Change’ that is no doubt run by some jobless fools that could feed on anything at all, even on human blood.

The shameless group claimed that the Islamic Movement in Nigeria IMN paid N250m to one ghost that goes by the name Dr. Idris Ahmad, whose profile is yet to be determined to discredit the Nigerian Army under Gen. Tukur Buratai. The story was reported and given special coverage in the media without regards to the ethics of the practice that requires balancing.

As this is yet to be assimilated by the public, just a few days later, another faceless group claiming to be a pan Igbo group that calls itself SERG emerged with yet another stupidity embarrassing and disgracing itself in public. This group claims that the IMN should be declared a terror group by the President Muhammadu Buhari regime.

I was quick to notice that this is the work of the same people wearing different faces but due to their lack of intelligence and understanding of the public psychology they operated hastily and emotionally hurrying to collect and share their proceeds.

I was just about responding to the first claim that N250m was paid to someone to discredit the Nigerian army under the incapable Gen. Buratai whose activities have recorded a lot of human rights flaws and lack of professionalism but with the emergence of the second group, I have to now merge the two together and address the real perpetrator behind the scene.

Following the clampdown on the IMN, the extra-judicial killings and mass murder of its members from 12th-14th of December 2015 by the Nigerian Army led by its chief, over 1000 members of the IMN, who were unarmed worshippers made up of mostly women and children were butchered by the Army in the most notorious and brutal manner one could ever imagine. Their crime on that day was attending the celebration of the coming of the birth month of Prophet Muhammad SAWA.

Initially the story of the mass killing was coming only from the IMN as the Army had taken over all the propaganda machinery telling the world conflicting stories. They claimed that the group blocked the way of the Chief of Army Staff, COAS and he killed his way through by killing only six to pass. They also shamelessly claimed that the IMN was after the life of the COAS but he managed to escape. In fact the COAS even went to report to the Nigerian Human Rights Commission NHRC that his life was threatened by the IMN.

Somehow, some questions arose that raised doubt on the army in the eyes of the public. The Army chief claimed he was blocked at a particular location and he killed six to make his way, but why did the killing persisted for two days in three other different locations that were several kilometers away from where the blockade took place? Why was the residence of the IMN leader attacked? Is the punishment for blocking the COAS and his heavily armed convoy by unarmed civilians direct mass murder and extra-judicial killing by law?

Being an accomplice in the crime against humanity, the Kaduna state governor Nasiru el-Rufai set up a Judicial Commission of Inquiry, JCI to investigate the issue made up of some in-plants whose duty is basically to demonize the IMN using their sectarian sentiments.

The JCI issued a report indicting the Nigerian Army and revealing to the world that the Army chief killed 347 not six as he earlier claimed. It didn’t stop there, in total violation of international and local laws especially the Geneva Convention, the 347 IMN members extra-judicially killed by the COAS and his men were also buried in a mass grave at Mando village close to Kaduna, something the Army denied until the JCI revelation.

How they did the killing is even worse than anything one can imagine. The revered leader of the IMN Sheikh ibraheem Zakzaky whose residence was attacked by the heavily armed soldiers was shot severally at close range that he could have been arrested by the soldiers not for the mischievous plan of murdering him in cold blood. He lost an eye in that encounter and the mechanical function of a limb. His wife was also shot severally in the belly and both of them have been refused treatment by the Nigerian government which is keeping them in illegal detention acting in contempt of the federal high court order.

Earlier, the Nigerian army had killed three of his sons. This time around, they killed three more, making the total number of his children killed by the Nigerian Army six. At the point of the killing of the children, no one would forget how the soldiers blew off the head of the youngest boy and his brains splashed on the body of his father. The next to him was slaughtered by the soldiers with gunshots in the throat.

This is not talking about the manner with which many were burned alive or thrown to the ground from story buildings or even how already helpless and injured persons were shot dead at close range by the soldiers to make sure they were dead or even how sharp objects were pierced into the private parts of women.

One very wicked incident is the one they threw the elder sister of Sheikh Zakzaky into a room along with his nephew and set the room ablaze. The old woman was shouting “are you going to burn us alive” until she died. If you don’t call these acts state terrorism what other name would you give to them?

A lot of people escaped with several degrees of injury while others were lucky to have escaped without injury and my wife and child are some of them. There are thousands of witnesses out there living with the tremor.

Despite all these brutalities, the IMN with its membership of about 20 million did not take the law into its hands instead it sorted redress through peaceful and legal means. It took the case to the federal high court where the fundamental rights of the IMN leader were enforced and an order for his release, compensation, provision of a new residence and personal police protection was issued by the court. The Buhari government refused to obey or respect the court and the IMN leader is still under illegal detention over one year after the judgment for which the IMN members continue to peacefully protest.

For the issue of the claims of paying N250m to some ghost to indict the army, if the IMN has up to N250m million to pay for discrediting the army, it would have used it in catering for the thousands of widows and orphans created by the COAS and his men. It would have used it in treating those who emerged from the killings with complications. It would have used it in giving a better life to those children whose parents were murdered by the army and have to be living on donations from other IMN members. Some families were even completely wiped out by the Army in the massacre, the father the mother and the children all killed by soldiers. Where is the braveness of the army when they spend two days shooting at unarmed men, women and children trying to dock and hide? This is like the case of an elephant priding itself with stepping on an ant.

And for the wishful suggestion of declaring IMN a terror organization, I have sited acts of state terrorism perpetrated by the Buhari regime, a situation that has led the International Criminal Court in The Hague to step up its investigation on the matter, I will like the SERG or Buhari regime or the Nigerian army to site acts of terrorism perpetrated by the IMN if any in its over 40 years of existence.

I said I was shocked but certainly not surprised when these faceless groups emerged. The Army frowned at the Human Rights Watch HRW for calling on it to come clean on the Zaria massacre.

The army has discredited the Amnesty International, AI for speaking against its excesses. There too a faceless group was sponsored to boo the AI office in Abuja where the hoodlums even stoned at them for accusing the army of human rights flaws.

A faceless group called Gyallesu Youths was also used to justify the government’s state terrorism in Zaria. A faceless group was also used to protest in Kaduna against the IMN where the hoodlums ended up fighting at the Kaduna NUJ while sharing the proceeds after the protest. This is just to mention but a few out of the several state sponsored NGO castigating the IMN.

The Buhari government has committed crimes against humanity; it has committed genocide against a minority group simply because the president and some of his people don’t share the same faith with them; it has committed acts of state terrorism. These sponsored groups, paid to castigate and blackmail the IMN share in all these terror acts as the mouth pieces of terrorism.

What has the IMN done to be termed a terror group? Is it seeking redress in courts or the peaceful street protests that are rampantly attacked by armed policemen who have killed several IMN members on the streets or is it the belief of the IMN that we are either brothers in faith or brothers in humanity, therefore we are all brothers that they call terrorism? Who then is the terrorist?

18/08/2018

PUBLIC RELEASE

Continued Detention Of Sheikh Zakzaky, Unjust

“We belong to Allah and to Him we shall return!” What a calamity! 980 days have passed since when the tyrannical regime of the federal government is detaining the Leader of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria, Sheikh Ibraheem Zakzaky, even though a federal High court has ordered for his release almost two years ago. Indeed any well-meaning Nigerian will begin to wonder what the federal government up to when it flagrantly disregard a valid court order to release the Sheikh and instituted some spurious charges against him recently.

Since 12th December, 2015, when the Nigerian Army brutally attacked Sheikh Zakzaky and his followers in Zaria, we have been staging peaceful protests from time to time on the streets, with rallies in mosques, showing our anger on the injustice being meted against us and the continued detention of our Leader, but to date the government is playing the Ostrich, pretending not to notice protestation.

Instead of even acceding to our demand for justice to the victims of the Army massacre in Zaria, we have been witnessing some unfortunate moves being made to sweep under the carpet the atrocities committed against us in Zaria. The most recent is the meeting held by some Wahabi scholars in Kaduna on Sunday 12/08/18, where a public presentation of a book authored by Prof. Umar Labdo titled ‘The fallacy of Shi’ites beliefs’ was done. They should know that we are aware of their diabolical ways from their Saudi sponsors to the federal and state governments doing their bidding to stop the rapid understanding of the Islamic Movement they flatly call the Shia.

Even before then, Kaduna state government has instituted some charges against Sheikh Zakzaky in a state high court falsely accusing him among others, of murder. For goodness sake how can there be justice when Sheikh Zakzaky is arraigned before a court, while his three children were killed before his eyes, his senior sister burnt alive, his house burnt and razed to ground, including his Islamic centre, and over a thousand of his followers killed, with many thousands injured during the Army’s killing spree in Zaria?

Where is thy justice, with the continued detention of the Sheikh that was shot several times, he and his wife, whom had it not been of the mercy of Allah upon them they would have been martyred by now, and who still harbor bullet wounds, having lost his eye and is on the verge of losing the other one due to lack of proper medical care? Any person of conscience, who believes in justice and peaceful coexistence among citizens, will agree that the present government has committed a monstrous crime in the continued detention of our Leader. And the only way out of this quagmire is his unconditional release from detention, along with hundreds others also in detention.

Even though few days ago the then Director general of DSS, Lawal Musa Daura was relieves of his duties, that doesn’t mean anything to us since our Leader is still illegally detained by the security agency. We are therefore calling on the acting Director general to expedite measures that will lead to the release of Sheikh Zakzaky, whose release from detention has been ordered by a competent court but Lawal Daura contemptuously refused to obey. We expect what befell Lawal Daura to serve as a lesson to his fellow travellers in crime who are still occupying high echelons of governance, whose hands are soiled with the blood of the innocent souls murdered in Zaria. By now they should realize that Allah can do and undo, for He is the ultimate arbiter among His creations.

Lastly we hereby reiterate our resolve to keep on coming out enmass during our peaceful protest, so that the general public will be more aware of the grand injustice suffered by our pious Leader Sheikh Ibraheem Zakzaky. We are once again calling on the federal government of Muhammadu Buhari to release him, his wife, Malama Zeenah Ibrahim and the hundreds currently detained in various detention centres across the nation, especially in the South.

SIGNED BY
SHEIKH ABDULHAMID BELLO ZARIA
17/08/18
This PR was released to the public today during the Free Zakzaky protest held in major cities of Nigeria.

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