{"id":71099,"date":"2019-12-30T06:12:20","date_gmt":"2019-12-30T05:12:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=71099"},"modified":"2019-12-30T06:12:20","modified_gmt":"2019-12-30T05:12:20","slug":"you-cannot-wash-your-hands-off-el-zakzakys-detention-shiite-group","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/you-cannot-wash-your-hands-off-el-zakzakys-detention-shiite-group\/","title":{"rendered":"You Cannot Wash Your Hands off El-Zakzaky\u2019s Detention-Shi\u2019ite Group"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Islamic Movement of Nigeria (IMN) has faulted a statement credited to the Attorney-General of the Federation (AGF) and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami (SAN) that the fate of its leader, Sheikh Ibraheem Zakzaky and his wife, lies in the hands of the Kaduna State Government and its governor, Nasir El-Rufai<\/div>\n
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The movement insists that rather, the Federal Government is complicit in the continuous detention of the IMN leader.<\/p>\n

In a statement issued on Sunday, the group\u2019s Spokesman, Ibrahim Musa, said it is not, therefore, possible, under any logical reasoning, to exonerate the President Muhammadu Buhari-led federal government from the \u201ccontinued contemptuous detention of Sheikh Zakzaky and his wife\u201d.<\/p>\n

The group also alleged that the Federal Government mischievously concocted a case in Kaduna, three years after the illegal detention of the IMN leader and his wife, accusing them of aiding and abetting homicide before the Kaduna State high court.<\/p>\n

According to the statement, the case against Sheikh Zakzaky is, therefore, only a mischievous attempt at keeping the revered leader in perpetual illegal detention.<\/p>\n

The group, however, calls on the Buhari Government to \u201cstop deceiving the public by trying to paint itself a saint and simply obey the court judgment to free the revered sheikh and stop further false and fake cases with the deliberate intention of keeping him in detention\u201d.<\/p>\n

The Statement Reads In Part:<\/p>\n

\u201cFirstly, the Federal Government\u2019s criminal complicity in the heinous genocide in Zaria of December, 2015 that led to the extrajudicial murder of over a thousand members of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria and the subsequent arrest and detention of the sheikh is beyond doubt.<\/p>\n

This much was accepted and testified to by the general himself in an interview he granted a Qatari television channel while on a visit there as early as March 2016.<\/p>\n

The Saudi crown prince\u2019s self-confessions during a visit to the us that the brutal and inhuman suppression and the continuing illegal detention of sheikh Ibrahim Zakzaky was part of his major foreign policy achievements further confirm the Federal Government\u2019s involvement, as foreign policy issues are in the exclusive list of the federal government.<\/p>\n

Was that not why the Saudi King was the first to call the general Buhari in December 2015, soon after the Zaria genocide, to congratulate him for what he called a victory against terrorism? Was that not also why general Buhari wanted to smuggle Nigeria into a Saudi-led military alliance at the time in the name of fighting terrorism? Was not the then Nigerian Defense Minister, Mansur Dan Ali accorded honor by the Saudi authorities on behalf of the federal government for the role the Nigerian military, an agent of the federal government, played?\u201d<\/p>\n

Secondly, the attacks, arrest and subsequent detention of sheikh Zakzaky were by federal government agencies. For the past four years, the department of state security (DSS) took custody of the sheikh and his wife from the army. Nobody is granted access to see him except with the express permission of these federal agents. It even had to take the involvement of the AGF for anyone; even the Kaduna State established judicial commission of inquiry at the time, to access sheikh Zakzaky.<\/p>\n

Furthermore, when the federal high court declared the detention of the sheikh and his spouse illegal and unconstitutional and ordered their immediate release from custody forthwith, the order was against the DSS, Nigeria police force and the AGF, all representing the federal government.<\/p>\n

The Kaduna State government was never a party in any of these matters. Who is the AGF now fooling that it is purely Kaduna State affair?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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