Group accuses state government of attacks

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March 22, 2016 12:07 PM

As its clash with the Nigeria Army marks 100 days, the Shiite Islamic Movement in Nigeria has cried out over what they described as unwarranted attacks by Kaduna State Government officials.

The group said rather than apologize, the Kaduna State Government completed what the Nigerian Military started by demolishing the remaining structures of the Movement.

They added that it was a move aimed at denying them any foothold in Zaria and its environs.

Addressing a press conference on Monday March 21, 2016, a spokesman for the group, Ibrahim Musa, said since the attack took place in 100 days ago, the Shiite Islamic Movement in Nigeria and its leadership have been further subjected to targeted, unwarranted and vicious attacks by the Kaduna State Government, the military, the police and some hired and hack writers engaged by some faceless individuals to attack the leadership and its members.

“We are further embarrassed and alarmed that the leader of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria is not in the custody of the Nigerian Police Force. The Nigerian people will recall that the military had claimed that they handed over the leader of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria to the Nigerian Police Force but it is clear that the leader is not in the custody of the Nigerian Police Force but that of the Department of State Services (DSS)."

"We are surprised that the leadership of the Nigerian military that orchestrated genocide against members of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria will lie to the Nigerian people that they handed over the leader of the Movement to the Nigerian Police Force.”

“It is now a matter of common knowledge that a Legal Team led by Femi Falana SAN and Festus Okoye Esq have made more than four fruitless attempts to see the leader of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria and interview him for the purposes of submitting memorandum to the Judicial Commission of Inquiry and his appearance before the said Commission” the group said.

“ and and other members of the legal team of the Movement have visited the headquarters of the DSS on more than four occasions at the invitation of the DSS for purposes of having audience with the leader of the Movement and all the visits yielded no result."

"It is therefore clear that there is a laid out plan to prevent the legal team of the Movement from having access to its leader, its spokesperson and the custodian of its properties” the group added.

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