Members of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria (IMN) have announced plans to resume nationwide protests over the continued incarceration of their leader, Sheikh Ibraheem Zakzakky.
In a statement shared by the spokesman of the Academic Forum of the IMN, Abdullahi Muhammad Musa, Friday, the sect said it was aggrieved by the handling of the report of the Judicial Inquiry into the killings in Kaduna State in 2015 and the health condition of their leader.
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“While condemning the role played by Saudi Arabia in the Zaria massacre and in Sheikh El-Zakzaky’s continued detention, we cannot afford to fold our hands and sit at home any more, watching Buhari and his sponsors try hard to kill the Sheikh.
“We have been staging protests in Abuja and across the country as well. It will continue until he is released unconditionally, as the case is already at the International Criminal Court of Justice,” they said.
Zakzaky was arrested following a military raid in December 2015 in which the worship centre in Gyellesu, Zaria, was also attacked.
The Federal Government in August 2019 flew Zakzaky to India for treatment after his followers alerted that he was going blind and had suffered strokes, but returned him over security concerns.
In July 2019, the Federal Government secured a court order proscribing the activities of the sect.
