DSP Josephine Adeh, spokesperson for the police, told the News Agency of Nigeria that the protesters came from Niger, Bauchi, Gombe, Borno and Kaduna states to cause mayhem in the FCT.
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Abdullahi Muhammad Musa, Secretary for the Academic Forum of the IMN, gave the clarification in a statement to announce the death of their member, Naziru Muazu, who was alleged to have been tortured by the police after his arrest last Friday in Abuja
Lawan, in a statement issued by Ola Awoniyi, his Special Adviser on Media, described the death of Channels reporter, Precious Owolabi, in the incident as tragic.
Head of Media and Public Relations of NEMA, Malam Sani Datti, made this known in a statement in Abuja.
Members of the sect who are demanding the release of their leader, Ibrahim El-Zakzaky, who has been in detention for about three years, violently clashed with security operatives at the Federal Secretariat at about 1.30 p.m.
The Senate has said it would investigate Tuesday’s invasion of the National Assembly complex by members of the Islamic Movement of Nigeria, Shiite.
A member of the House of Representatives, Hon. Abdulrazak Namdas, has condemned invasion of the National Assembly Complex by Shiite protesters on Tuesday.
The invaders stormed the complex at about 1.30 p.m., demanding the release of their leader Ibrahim El Zakzaky who has been in detention for about four years.
Time and time again, our memories have been left awash by the sordid and heart rending accounts of unwarranted killings by men of the various Nigeria security apparatuses.
Commissioner of Police in the area, Bala Ciroma, stated this when he presented the suspects to the media at the command’s headquarters in Abuja on Tuesday.
The statement stated that the casualty figure arose after the sect members attacked troops deployed at a check point at the junction at about 3:p.m.
Three Shi’ite Muslim pilgrims were killed by a roadside bomb as they walked to a holy site near the northeastern Iraqi city of Khanaqin on Tuesday, police said.
Members of the Shi’ite Movement on Monday in Nyanya, a Federal Capital Territory and Mararaba, Nasarawa state, protested the continued detention of their leader, Ibrahim El-Zakzaky.
The Army has confirmed that three members of the Islamic Movement of Nigeria or Shiite, died on Saturday, while two solders sustained injuries when the sect clashed with troops at Zuba in the FCT.
The spokesman of the command, DSP Manzha Anjugiri, confirmed this to the News Agency of Nigeria on Friday.
Journalists who trooped to the court premises to cover the case were also barred from entering by heavily armed security men stationed at all strategic points leading to the court
The police had earlier warned against unauthorised religious processions in the city
In Kaduna, the traffic from Abuja has been diverted to the Western Bye Pass
The NUJ announced the decision in a statement signed by the State Secretary of the union, Dauda Idris-Doka, in Zaria on Friday
A Presidency official, who spoke under condition of anonymity with newsmen on Thursday in Abuja, said so many obstacles were working against release of the Shi’ite leader