The Ibraheem Elzakzaky-led Islamic Movement in Nigeria (IMN), a group propagating Shia Islam in the country has said that one of its members in detention who was shot by military personnel has died, Reportsafrique has said.
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Ibraheem-El-Zakzaky, leader of the Shiite movement in Nigeria
This was made known in a statement issued by the head of the sect’s media forum, Ibrahim Musa, on Monday, January 4.
IMN gave the name of the murdered member of the sect as Abbas Isiyaku. The group said he was shot and denied treatment by his detainees.
The group further revealed that 13 other members are seriously wounded and are still held in Kaduna prison.
“Many more others, number unknown, are still being held incommunicado at various military barracks and other detention centres without access to medical care. This is inclusive of our leader Sheikh Ibraheem Zakzaky and his wife.
“Many of those that died much earlier, died in similar circumstances, when being shot and wounded, soldiers prevented access to them for prompt medical care even to the Red Cross officials. It is very unfortunate that in our democratic country, the army still detains civilians without proper recourse to the law of the land. We don’t know if Kaduna has already been declared a state under emergency law. If not, why should people arrested by the army still be in army gulags for almost 3 weeks?” Musa said.
The group spokesman called on civil liberty organisations and concerned Nigerians to prevail on the government to release its detained members, especially the ones suffering from the bullet and burn wounds they sustained during the bloody clash with military personnel on December 12, 2015.
“Failure to release them will belie the response of the COAS to members of the committee set up by NSCIA, by appreciating the concern of NSCIA in this avoidable incident,” he said.
IMN also demanded the immediate release of the corpses of its members in military custody “which are in their hundreds.”
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“And if as it is being speculated, they have buried them in mas$ graves, then they should inform the world where the mas$ graves are. These people they murdered extra judicially are Nigerians with families and relatives who are ready to own their corpses and have rights to them,” he said.
Meanwhile, after the altercation between the Islamic Movement of Nigeria and the army under the chief of army staff, Tukur Buratai, the inspector general of police, Solomon Arase, disclosed the condition necessary to grant access to the group’s spiritual leader, Ibrahim El-Zakzaky.
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