The Shiite movement in Nigeria has described recent allegations of by some residents of Zaria that the sect held people in Zaria and Sabon Gari local government areas of the state hostage with impunity as a campaign of calumny against the movement.
Some members of the Shi’ites group during a recent demonstration demanding the release of their leader Sheikh Zakzaky
Recall that some residents of Zaria called on the federal to ban the Zakzaky-led Islamic movement from their communities as he brought untold hardship on them for over 20 years.
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However, the Islamic movement has described the allegations by the residents of Zaria as a calculate plot by what its described as a faceless group to further their evil agenda against the movement in Nigeria.
According to This Day, the group in a statement through its spokesman, Ibrahim Musa stated that: “The faceless group referred to as ‘Zaria Residents’ has no identity and does not represent all the Nigerians resident in Zaria but the mischief of their sponsors to make such proclamation that made front pages in most Nigerian dailies.
“We wish to make it clear to all that Sheikh Ibrahim Zakzaky does not have a ‘sect’ as they claimed and he has said it on countless occasions that he does not belong to any sect.”
The statement added that as an Islamic movement it has “millions of Nigerians that included both Shi’ah and Sunni Muslims with warmly association with various Christian groups in Nigeria”.
“To buttress this, IMIN yearly commemorates the birth anniversary of Sheikh Uthman Ibn Fodio who was a great Islamic reformer in the West“African sub-region and a Sunni scholar and had spent millions of naira in the past 10 years producing a film on his life times which would be released soon.
“The IMIN in the yearly AlQuds Day procession that draws attention to pathetic plight of oppressed Palestinian Muslims and Christians under inhuman Israeli occupation, where the overwhelming majority of Palestinian Muslims are Sunni, the IMIN had staged yearly peaceful rallies in their support for the past 30 years.”
The group described the claims that Sheikh Ibrahim Zakzaky was leading a sect as lies from a group of blind haters.
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It said: “This is evident from the way he exchanged pleasantries and gifts during festivities as can be attested from the movement’s websites over the years. He hosted Eid feast with many from different places, including Christians in attendance.
“Members of IMIN have engaged in provision of free social services to the community, including water, sanitation and healthcare to neighborhood which had even extended to the Ahmadu Bello University Teaching Hospital, Shika near Zaria where the Movement catered for patients stranded by health workers strikes on various occasions hence, it is absolutely mischievous and ridiculous for anyone to claim that residents have been placed under bondage for 20 years.”
In the same vein, members of the Shiite movement in Niger state protested the continued detention of their leader Sheikh Ibrahim El-Zakzaky by the security services.
The leader of the Shiite movement in Niger state Mallam Ibrahim Khalid Mohammed said the Sheikh was detained despite preaching peace and peaceful co-existence.
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