The IMN made its position on the development known in a statement issued by Professor I. H. Mshelgaru, on Saturday.
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Justice Obiora Egwuatu, in a judgment, held that the couple failed to provided sufficient evidence to show that their passports were either seized, destroyed, lost or that the relevant agency was unwilling to reissue travel documents to them.
Justice Obiora Egwuatu fixed the date after counsel for the applicants (El-Zakzakys), Marshall Abubakar and lawyer to the National Intelligence Agency (NIA), Abubakar Shaibu, including the Department of State Services (DSS)’s lawyer, Abbas Olayiwola, adopted their processes has fixed March 30 and against the suit.
The group described the allegation as a plot by the Muhammed Buhari-led government to tagged the organisation in bad light.
The development occurred shortly after the matter was called for mention at a Federal High Court, Abuja, presided over by Justice Obiora Egwuatu.
The group warned that failure by the FG to heed its demand will prompt another procession by the concerned indigenes.
Justice Obiora Egwuatu, after counsel to the parties in the suit argued their matter for and against the suit.
El-Zakzaky and wife expressed their objection after counsel to the NIS, Jimoh Adamu, served on the plaintiffs’ lawyer, Funmi Falana, a motion to join the DSS and NIA in the suit, which came up on Tuesday before Justice Obiora Egwuatu of a Federal High Court, Abuja.
The couple, who listed the NIS and its Comptroller General as 1st and 2nd defendants, prayed the Federal High Court, Abuja to enforce their fundamental right.
The Service denied diverting money meant for him and his wife while in custody.
He stated this at a news conference in his Abuja home in remembrance of what has come to be known as: “Zaria Massacre.”
The IMN leader stated this on Sunday in a statement made available in Abuja by Abdullahi Musa, who is the Secretary, the Academic Forum of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria titled: “Eid-El Maulud, a Season of Unity,” to mark this year’s occasion.
El-Zakzaky stated that they are still being denied their freedom despite a court order, which discharged and acquitted them of all the eight counts preferred against them by the government.
The IMN leader and his wife stood trial over allegations of culpable homicide, unlawful assembly, among other criminal charges since December 2015, following a clash between his followers and convoy of the then Chief of Army Staff, Lt-General Tukur Yusuf Buratai in Zaria.
The IMN, which raised concern over the failing state of health of the duo in Kaduna Prison, said its leader and his wife have been in the “illegal detention” for 2,000 days.
IMN, at a press conference in Abuja addressed by Prof. Abdullahi Danladi from Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria to mark the 5th Anniversary of the Zaria Massacre by the military, noted that despite the attack, the group had not taken any retaliatory measure against the Nigerian Government.
The Secretary, Academic Forum of the IMN, Abdullahi Muhammad Musa, made the remark in a statement in Abuja.
The actor raised the alarm in a post on his Facebook page, saying his attackers were directing their aggression at the wrong person.
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The leader of the Shiite movement in Nigeria and his wife left Nigeria on Monday through the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja