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Baba Aye blasts Buhari on mass detention, says Nigeria military not learning from history

by Our Reporter

 

The National Convener of the United Action for Democracy (UAD), Mr.
Baba Aye, has called on the All Progressive Congress (APC) led
government to stop its mass repression, murder, and unlawful detention
of citizens across the country.

Aye, in a statement, faulted the Federal Government on the “wave of
macabre repression” which has included “hundreds of Shi’ite Moslems
killed in Zaria” and state-sanctioned murders of “the Indigenous
People of Biafra (IPOB) and the Movement for the Actualization of the
Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB)” members.

He also faulted Nigerian government and military for the recent
massacre of Shiite Muslims in Zaria and unlawful detention of the
Shiite leader, Sheikh Ibrahim Zakzaky.
He said the Nigeria military has not learnt from recent history,
noting the parallels between the massacre of Muslims in Zaria and
unlawful detention of Sheikh Zakzaky to the murder of Boko Haram’s
former sect leader Mohammed Yusuf.

Aye said:  “The continued detention of El-Zakzaky is in no way
justifiable. UAD thus calls for his immediate release and the
establishment of a judicial commission of inquiry into the Zaria
killings which should include the trade unions and civil society
movement.”

He argued in his statement that the pro-Biafra sentiments in southern
Nigeria are linked to the “Nigerian state and the class of leaders,
who control it, including those from the South Eastern states, have
failed the generality of common women, men and youth.” He added that
“detaining or killing persons who stand for the secession of ‘Biafra’
is in no way a solution to the secessionist agitation which is now
rife in the South East.”

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