NIM accuses FG of using cruel force on Shiite protesters

The grand national coalition of Nigeria Intervention Movement, has condemned the Federal Government in the strongest terms for using operatives of the Nigeria Police to inflict brute force against the peaceful protest organised by members of the Shi’ite Movement of Nigeria, leading to the reported murder of scores of Shiite peaceful protesters on Monday

The position of NIM was contained in a statement by its Deputy Director General, Mallam Nasser Kura, on Monday.

It said: “We find the killings of defenceless citizens by the Nigerian police during a peaceful protest as inhuman and mindless, something that has further accentuated the reputation of the Nigerian government as irresponsible, reckless and anti democratic. NIM as the emergent alternative political leadership of the Nigerian peoples, shall however, not stand aloof, fold its arm and watch the country turned into a police state, where defenceless are terrorised and murdered by the incompetent cabalistic government of General Muhammadu Buhari.

“We hereby demand that indicted happy trigger police operatives involved in this unfortunate cruelty and criminality be immediately brought to book and withdrawn from further confronting the peaceful protest of the Shi’ites movement. Finally, NIM demands a strong apology and compensation to the Shiite movement from General Muhammadu Buhari’s drowning government as we shall not hesitate to provide fraternal solidarity to the peace loving Shi’ites movement in their legitimate cause and protest for ” injustice to a Nigerian Citizen is injustice to all.”