Members of the islamic Movement in Nigerian (IMN) also known as Shi’ite have claimed that security operatives are planning to attack Shi’ite youths trekking to Abuja to demand release of their leader, Sheikh Ibrahim Zakzaky.
Daily Trust gathered that Shi’ite youths commenced trekking to Abuja from Zaria sometime last week to demand for the release of Zakzaky who has been in detention since December, 2015.
The Shi’ites in a statement signed by the President of the Media Forum of the movement, Ibrahim Musa said, “The sinister plan show that the unsuspecting youths will be attacked by some unscrupulous security operatives as they approach Abuja and some weapons will be claimed to have been found on them. These security agents will then rush to town to accuse the Islamic Movement of planning to launch an attack on the Capital in a bid to forcibly release Sheikh Zakzaky.
“We will like to inform the general public that these young men and women that started their trek from Zaria, Kaduna state are peaceful in all their actions, and since last week when they started nobody has complained of them being a nuisance to commuters in any way along the expressway to Abuja. They decided to trek on their own volition just to buttress how aggrieved they are with the continued incarceration of Sheikh Zakzaky and to draw public attention to the inhuman condition he is being held without recourse to due process of the law.
“The Islamic Movement has continued to be peaceful in all its activities for the past four decades; therefore it is inconceivable for violence to be ascribed to it now. Any attempt to plant arms amongst us will not just work because it has never been our modus operandi in our path of calling people to justice in the path of Allah.
“Nonetheless we will keep on calling on the Federal government to as a matter of priority release our Leader Sheikh Ibraheem Zakzaky and all others detained with him.”
