The Shi’ite sect leader, Malam Muhammad Mahmoud Turi, has expressed concern over what he described as a grand conspiracy to kill their leader, Sheikh Ibrahim El-Zakzaky.
He revealed that it was known to all that soldiers killed three of El-Zakzaky’s children in broad daylight as they were exercising their fundamental human right of association and assembly.
The Shi’ite leader made this comment to newsmen at NUJ, Kano Secretariat, as they were to embark on an endurance trek from Kano to Zaria in commemoration of the sufferings of the grandson of the Prophet of Islam, Prophet Muhammad 1,375 years ago.
However, in response to the statement accredited to Vice President Namadi Sambo, the leader of the Shi’ite sect in the north western region, Malam Turi claimed that federal government was responsible for the killings in the north west and north east of Nigeria.
“I cannot agree with anybody exonerating federal government as having a hand in the activities of Boko Haram,” he said, arguing that the militants got some of their weapons from government agents.
Malam Turi explained that security situation in the northern region required them to inform the general public about their ‘Arbaeen trek’ in order to avoid what happened four month ago when soldiers killed about 40 members of their sect.
Turi added lamented that it was very clear to all Nigerians that the federal government has decided on a daylight to attack and killed innocent Shiite members in discharging their fundamental human rights of right of association and assembly.
He was in respect of that incidence conclude his position that there is no other Boko Haram than the federal government who instructed soldiers to kill innocent sect members and students on peaceful protest in ensuring many go uneducated.
Muhammad viewed the ‘Arbaeen trek to Zaria’ as a movement against bad governance and oppression, same way other movements are commemorating the oppressed.
In his words, their endurance trek is about telling the world that the grandson of Prophet of Islam, Imam Hussein has refuse to submit to oppressors and so he was murdered, saying the movement concerns not only Muslims but humanity in general.
source : leadership
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8 December 2014
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The Shi’ite sect leader, Malam Muhammad Mahmoud Turi, has expressed concern over what he described as a grand conspiracy to kill their leader, Sheikh Ibrahim El-Zakzaky.