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| IMN crisis: Borno elders and diseased conscience by Gabriel Onoja |
| 2016-12-11 |
| [NAIJ] Members of IMN and their leaders have been unrepentantly a torn in the flesh of Zaria people, where its headquarters is domiciled; Kaduna, Kano states and elsewhere in the North where it parades membership. These are facts re-echoed repeatedly. Each time the IMN sect members embark on their lengthy religious processions, they do not only possess crude and dangerous weapons, including dane guns, but flagrantly abuse laws of the land, harass, intimidate and bully law-abiding citizens. Public complaints against their demonic acts were not addressed and so, they developed a thick, mindboggling and abhorring impunity to attack security agents. These hooligans detestable conduct came to the fore when they had the guts to attack the army in Zaria. Indeed, El-Zakzaky himself ignored calls put across to him by Governor el-Rufai to prevail on his unjustifiably incensed sect members to open the aisle for the Army boss who was on an official engagement. It is important to note that shiism is not under attack in Nigeria because there are at least two other shiite sects operating peacefully in Kaduna, but it is IMN that has turned itself into a terror group It is their ready inclination to disregard laws of Nigeria, stick to violence and the display of terror instincts that also led them to brutally confront the police in Kano who attempted to foil their procession from the ancient city of Kano to Zaria for the annual Arbaeen Trek to Zaria, in memory of martyred Imam Husain (AS). This was after Kaduna state officially banned the IMN sect and the police in Kano also slammed a ban on their unlawful processions. The Kaduna State Judicial Commission of Inquiry (JCI) has disclosed the recalcitrance of Nigerian IMN in floating details in the report it has submitted to government. Acting on the white paper, the state government adopted the recommendation branding the Iranian backed Islamic Movement in Nigeria (IMN), an turban group. "For all intent and purposes, the IMN is an turban group and ought to be treated as such," the white paper noted. The various violent protests the IMN staged for the release of El-Zakzaky in disregard of constituted authority is a tip of the iceberg. But to decode the snuffies bent of the IMN, the declaration by its alternate leader, Sheik Abdulkadir Koki during the burial of some Shiites members in Kano state unequivocally stated it; "As followers of Sheik Ibraheem El-Zakzaky, we shall never submit ourselves to the dictates of the Nigerian government even if our own lives will be taken away by the forces of its security agents." This was after the recently redeployed Iranian envoy to Nigeria, Amb. Saeed Koozechi emboldened the Nigerian Shiites which has sponsorship from Iran’s ISIS, by daring Nigeria’s illusory sovereignty when he said, "Nigeria is pouring fuel on fire," by the continuous detention of Sheik El-Zakzaky by Nigerian security agents. |
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