{"id":62400,"date":"2018-05-30T15:51:12","date_gmt":"2018-05-30T14:51:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=62400"},"modified":"2018-05-30T15:51:12","modified_gmt":"2018-05-30T14:51:12","slug":"el-zakzaky-u-s-blast-buhari-over-human-rights-abuse-violation-of-rule-of-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/el-zakzaky-u-s-blast-buhari-over-human-rights-abuse-violation-of-rule-of-law\/","title":{"rendered":"El-Zakzaky: U.S Blast Buhari Over Human Rights Abuse, Violation of Rule of Law"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"ltr\">The United States has accused the Muhammadu Buhari led government of of<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">Nigeria of human rights abuses and violation of rule of law, noting<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">specifically that there was no record that the Nigerian or military<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">authorities had demanded accountability from the soldiers implicated in<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">the December 2015 clash between the Army and members of the Islamic<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">Movement in Nigeria led by Ibrahim El-Zakzaky.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">The US stated this in the International Religious Freedom Report for 2017<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">released by the Department of State\u2019s Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">and Labour.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">The report also noted that the Nigerian government continued to hold<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">El-Zakzaky and restrict the free movement and association of his<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">followers.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">It read, \u201cHuman rights groups continued to report the Federal Government<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">often failed to prevent, quell, or respond to violence affecting religious<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">groups, particularly in the North Eastern and central regions of the<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">country.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\u201cIn November, Kano State police fired tear gas and bullets, killing three<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">members of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria during its annual Ashura<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">procession.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">In another part of the report, it states:<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\u201cDuring 2016, the Nigerian government at the federal and state levels<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">continued to repress the IMN. The confrontation started in December 2015<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">in Zaria, Kaduna State, when the Nigerian Army killed 347 IMN members,<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">arrested almost 200 others, including IMN leader Sheikh Ibrahim Zakzaky,<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">and destroyed the IMN\u2019s spiritual headquarters after the group blocked the<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">procession of the Nigerian Army\u2019s chief of staff. Since this incident, the<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">Nigerian government has detained Zakzaky without charge. A federal court<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">ruled on December 2, 2016, that Zakzaky should be released within 45<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">days.\u201d<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">The US also raised concerns that soldiers implicated in the December 2015<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">clash between the army and IMN members had not been brought to book.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\u201cThere were no reports of accountability for soldiers implicated in the<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">December 2015 clash between the army and IMN members that, according to a<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">Kaduna State Government report and reports from non-government observers,<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">left at least 348 IMN members and one soldier dead, with IMN members<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">buried in a mass grave.\u201d<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">It, however, alleged that dozens of IMN members were still being held<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">since December 2015, charged with the death of the soldier.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">It recalled that in August, the then Acting President Yemi Osinbajo<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">announced the creation of a Presidential Investigative Panel that was<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">committed to transparently and credibly investigating human rights abuses<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">committed by the military.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">It said the IMN, however, publicly stated that it would boycott the panel<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">because it doubted its sincerity.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">External human rights observers, it noted, also expressed concern over the<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">lack of transparency and rigour of the panel.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">The report noted that the Nigerian government had yet to obey court orders<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">on the detained El-Zakzaky and his wife.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\u201cThe government stated publicly that Sheikh El-Zakzaky, leader of the IMN<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">and a prominent Shia cleric, would remain in what it said was \u2018protective<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">custody\u2019 pending the appeal of the December 2016 decision of the Federal<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">High Court in Abuja that the government must release him.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\u201cAt year\u2019s end, El-Zakzaky remained in prison.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\u201cThe court also ruled that the government must provide him with a house<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">and pay him and his wife restitution of N25m ($69,600) by January 15; at<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">year\u2019s end, the court\u2019s order had yet to be followed,\u201d it said.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">The report also indicated that terrorist organisation, Boko Haram, and its<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">splinter organisation, the Islamic State-West Africa, continued \u201ccarrying<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">out numerous attacks, committing mass killings, and targeting civilians.\u201d<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">It quoted Nigeria Watch as estimating that activities by Boko Haram and<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">ISIS-WA resulted in the deaths of 1,794 persons in 2017, including members<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">of the two groups.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">The Nigerian Government is yet to react to the report at the time of<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">filing this report.<\/div>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United States has accused the Muhammadu Buhari led government of of Nigeria of human rights abuses and violation of rule of law, noting specifically that there was no record&hellip;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":48506,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-exclusive"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - 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