Hundreds of members of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria blocked the entrance of the National Assembly on Wednesday to demand the release of the group’s leader, Ibrahim El-Zakzaky, and to protest the killing of Shiites by the Nigerian Army.
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The United States Embassy has said it is concerned by the deaths resulting from clashes between Nigerian security forces and members of the Islamic Movement of Nigeria in areas surrounding Abuja.
The National Chairman of the YPP, Comrade Emmanuel Bishop Amakiri, made the call during a press conference on the wave of violence in the country on Thursday in Abuja
The Nigeria Police Force has rejected Amnesty International Nigeria’s report on the alleged use of force against members of the Islamic Movement of Nigeria, also known as Shi’ites.
The News Agency of Nigeri reports that the organisation had alleged in its report on Wednesday that the police and military used deadly force against IMN members.
A coalition of 22 Civil Society Organisations on Thursday cautioned politicians against hijacking the clash between members of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria and the military for personal gain.
The US Embassy has urged the Nigerian Government to conduct a thorough investigation into the clashes between security agencies and members of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria also known as Shittes and take appropriate action.
The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, made this known when he fielded questions from State House correspondents at the end of the Council’s meeting on Wednesday in Abuja.
Anybody saying the Shiites could be made to become “hardened” through the ongoing strong-arm security response to their demonstration in Abuja does not appear to know them properly. Theologically they do not harbour “hardening elements” in the mould of say the Boko Haram as some analysts think.
The Kaduna State Police Command Spokesman, DSP Yakubu Sabo, confirmed the arrest in a telephone interview with the News Agency of Nigeria.
A human interest organisation, Save Humanity Advocacy Centre, has expressed concern over the failure of the Federal Government to designate the Islamic Movement in Nigeria, popularly known as Shiites, as a terrorist organization.
The presiding Judge, Justice Gideon Kurada, adjourned the matter to enable the prosecution serve the two other persons standing trial with the Shiites leader.
A senior security officer who pleaded anonymity because he was not permitted to talk to journalists, told NAN that the sect members had to be forcefully dispersed after all pleas to leave the area fell on deaf ears.
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the Shi’ites were demanding the release of their leader, Ibrahim El-Zakzaky.
The BEF letter, purportedly signed by its Chairman, Ambassador Usman Gaji Galtimari, pretended on the face value to counsel the Presidency on the imperative to wade into the simmering Shiites crises for amicable resolution to avoid a repeat of another religious crisis in Nigeria
According to a statement signed by GGI Co-ordinator, Uche Madu John, Nigerians will continue to support the army in its quest to protect law abiding citizens from any form of aggressor
The court ordered the immediate and unconditional release of El-Zakzaky and his wife
The greater fallout of those protests is instability that replaced the relative peace those nations once knew – Libya, Yemen, Egypt are basket cases while Syria is now the theatre for the world’s most confounding proxy wars that began with what trusting citizens thought were simple street protests
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A statement by Angela Bala, More Voices Against Terrorism’s Head of Administration, said the group is “hopeful that the incoming administration of President-elect, Mr Donald Trump, which shown remarkable understanding of radical Islam would put the IMN on the terror list and compel Iran to stop exporting its evil to the African continent
The violent interface with the police occurred despite the ban slammed on the sect both by the Kano State Police Command and the Kaduna State Government in Nigeria. In all the instances of the loathsome sect’s clashes with security agents in the country, they disguise under the banner of religious processions, weird in its entirety and in dissonance with laws of the country