Browsing: Shaikh Zakzaky

The IMN made it clear from the onset that his Eminence Sheikh Ibraheem Zakzaky is, the leader, spokesman and custodian of its properties and that it will be unjust, unfair and against the tenets of the rule of law and due process for the leader to be held incommunicado and a Judicial Commission of Inquiry will be sitting to determine the fate of the Movement he leads, the extent of destruction meted to its properties, the number of its members extra judicially executed, missing and or in prison custody

The sect on Monday said the District Heads of the Zazzau Emirate Council, operatives of the DSS, local government security chiefs and the leadership of the Nigerian Army and Nigerian Police at the divisional levels held a secret meeting in the office of the Salanken Zazzau, Alhaji Bello Abdulkadir, to device ways of arresting and detaining members of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria and their leaders in Zaria, Kaduna State

The Nigerian Army has given conflicting accounts of what happened or the day in question. At first, the Army said the Chief of Army Staff was the target of an assassination plot. However, in another statement, Army spokesperson Col. Usman Sani claimed the members of the Sect were blocking the passage of the COAS convoy on the road which necessitated their use of lethal weapons against them

Known as the Husainiyyah Baqiyyatullah, the Centre was said to have been completely demolished by the Nigerian soldiers as allegedly directed by the Director General of the Department of State Services, Lawal Musa Daura