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A detachment of security personnel were sighted patrolling the Nigeria capital city, alongside other security operatives.
Sheikh Ibraheem El-Zakzaky
Following the return of Shi’a leader, Sheikh Ibraheem El-Zakzaky
and his wife, Zeenat, from a controversial medical trip to India on
Friday, security has been beefed up in Abuja to forestall a possible
breakdown of law and order by members of the Islamic Movement in
Nigeria, IMN.
A detachment of security personnel were sighted patrolling the
Nigeria capital city, even as there is a visible presence of Police,
Army, Civil Defence Corps personnel as well as those in mufti believed
to be men of the Department of State Services (DSS).
DAILY POST correspondent was also in Wuse II Abuja at noon on
Friday, where hefty-looking police officers were seen in clusters fully
armed for any eventualities around Banex Plaza which is a commercial
nerve centre of the capital city.
A Police officer, who spoke with DAILY POST but declined to disclose his name, said, “Banex Plaza has been a flash-point of Shiites protesters”, adding that the IMN has been proscribed and they shouldn’t be any protest in that name.
“We read in the media of the Islamic Movement of Nigeria (IMN)
otherwise known as Shiites accusing the government of Nigeria of their
leader’s sudden return to Nigeria from India,” he told this newspaper under anonymity.
In a statement made available to a reporter in Abuja by the IMN
spokesman, Ibrahim Musa on Thursday, the group accused the federal
government of Nigeria of complicity in the treatment of the
controversial Shi’a leader at the India hospital he was granted leave by
the court to go for treatment.
Part of the statement read: “The impasse was sequel to refusal
of the Sheikh to succumb to imposition of Medical treatment by the
Nigerian security forces in collaboration with their Indian colleagues.
“The Nigerian government’s interference and scuttling of the
whole process rather than supervision as ordered by the court is the
direct cause of the impasse.
“The government never wanted the medical leave in the first place, and did whatever to stop it by all means possible.
“The Islamic Movement is completely not happy with the latest
development, and we strongly believe any peace loving person in Nigeria
feels the same.
“The government left no one in doubt that it never wanted the Sheikh to go for the medical treatment in the first place.
“They opposed the application in court. When the order went against them, they indicated their desire to appeal against it.
“When that wasn’t going to stop the journey, they attempted to
prevent it via introduction of stringent conditions that were not put in
place by the court.
“Having failed to stop using all these methods, they exploited
the clear direction to “supervise” and went ahead to obstruct the
medical treatment in New Delhi, India.
“Why would the Sheikh trust a government that killed thousands
of his supporters including his sons, shot him and his wife and further
exposed them to heavy metal poisoning?
“We pray to almighty Allah to continue to protect him from the
enemies of peace, who were behind the Zaria genocide of December, 2015
and the subsequent extreme persecution and torture he is being subjected
to.”
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