Zaria Massacre: IMN Mounts More Pressure To Free Zakzaky

Nigerian students under the aegis of the Academic forum of the Islamic movement in Nigeria (IMN) staged a peaceful protest at the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) headquarters, Abuja.

IMN students staging a protest in Abuja

On Tuesday January, 19 the IMN students staged a protest pressing for the unconditional release of Sheikh Zakzaky.
The well attended protest which lasted for over an hour has attracted protesters from different tertiary institutions around Nigeria comprising students, lecturers and other movers and shakers of the academia.

Shiites protest the continued detention of their leader.

ABNA reports that the protesters holding placards inscribed ‘Free Zakzaky Now’, ‘We demand the unconditional release of our leader’ and banners carrying the pictures, names, institutions and course of study of students killed by the Nigerian military in Zaria.

Mr Muhammad Bello Anyingba, a lecturer at Kogi state University, told journalists shortly after the protest that the purpose of the march was to demand the absolute release of Sheikh Zakzaky.
He further called on the Nigerian government to get the corpses of those killed for proper Islamic burial and free those in various military detention facilities.
In reply to allegations about the video clip aired by military, he said the video was edited to justify their inhumane acts.

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“American President Barack Obama was stoned somewhere and nobody was killed. Former Nigerian President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan was pelted in Bauchi while canvassing for votes but nobody was killed,” the lecturer buttressed.

A statement signed by the Chairman of the Academic forum of the Islamic movement in Nigeria (AFIMN), Shu’aibu Isah Ahmad called on the Nigerian authorities to accept the atrocities in Zaria and compensate the families of those affected.

“We call on the government to summon courage and live up to its morality and accept its crime by paying compensation to all affected families and relations” the statement said.

The head of the commission, Prof Ben Agwe has promised to probe the Zaria massacre, inviting some members of movement on Wednesday, January 20 for an official address of the memorandum filed in last week.