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The group, also known as the Shiite movement in Nigeria, said reports have confirmed that the security operatives fired on the protesters with canisters of tear gas near Kofar Doka in Zaria, a place where dozens of Muslims were killed in 1996 in a similar protest when the regime of late General San Abacha arrested their leader, Sheikh Ibrahim El-Zakzaky

The counsel said joined in the suit instituted against the Federal Government was the Nigerian Army, Chief of Army Staff (Lieutenant General Tukur Buratai), the Director-General of the DSS, the Inspector-General of Police and the Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice