AhlulBayt News Agency (ABNA): The Islamic Movement of Nigeria, on Tuesday, said eight corpses of its members gunned down by Buhari forces on July 22, 2019, during a protest to demand the freedom of its leader, Ibrahim El-Zakzaky and his wife, Zeenah, were still being held by the security agencies despite a Supreme Court verdict that they should be released.
The IMN, popularly known as Shiites, also described as sad the fact that the police had “assigned to themselves the right to decide whom to drop dead or continue to inhabit planet earth.”
The organisation said the Special Anti-Robbery Squad killed and injured so many of its members during the peaceful march as the personnel raided one of the hospitals, which a lot of the victims had been taken to for treatment.
The President, Academic Forum, IMN, Musa Abdullahi, said in Abuja that the group would not be deterred despite persecution by agents of the state.
On July 22, 2019, 12 persons, including IMN peaceful protesters, an intern with Channels TV and a serving member of the National Youth Service Corps, Precious Owolabi; and a Deputy Commissioner of Police, Usman Belel, died during the rally held at the Federal Secretariat in Abuja.
The IMN said 12 persons were killed on the spot and later another three died in the FCT SARS detention centre.
Abdullahi stated, “Even the late DCP was killed in the line of fire by the bullets of his colleagues, the sole aim of which was to frame the protesters, whose only demand has been, and yet is, freedom for their leader, Sheikh Zakzaky, and his wife, Zeenah Ibrahim, according to the legal order of the Supreme Court of Justice in Nigeria.
“The shoot-to-kill doctrine of the Nigeria police when it comes to protesters has claimed many lives, including Precious Owolabi, an apprentice journalist with Channels TV, who was executed for recording police crimes.
“To date, eight families have yet to bury their fathers, brothers and sons. These eight people, who were executed by the police, are not only dead, they are also hostages.
“Despite the Federal High Court judgment delivered by Justice Taiwo O. Taiwo, the police are still detaining eight corpses of the free Zakzaky protesters at the National Hospital and the Asokoro District Hospital, Abuja. It was so bloody a massacre that almost all survivors merely escaped by the skin of their teeth.
“However, killing and injuring so many people on the march did not seem to have bothered the police as well-armed policemen in vans raided one of the hospitals to which a lot of the victims had been taken and admitted, and even started receiving treatment, some medical and others surgical. They took them away and dumped them at the SARS headquarters, now SWAT, where they were beaten and tortured within an inch of their lives.”
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source : Punch
Wednesday
21 October 2020
10:57:57 AM
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Eight members of Islamic Movement in Nigeria not only executed by Buhari forces in July 2019 still in hostages
Nigeria: Eight members of Islamic Movement not only executed by Buhari forces in July 2019 still in hostages. The Islamic Movement of Nigeria, on Tuesday, said eight corpses of its members gunned down by Buhari forces on July 22, 2019, during a protest to demand the freedom of its leader, Ibrahim El-Zakzaky and his wife, Zeenah, were still being held by the security agencies despite a Supreme Court verdict that they should be released.