Buhari has paid agents to infiltrate our group - Shiites
- Islamic Movement of Nigeria have alleged that President Muhammadu Buhari led federal government is not ready to release the group’s leader, Sheikh Ibrahim Zakzaky
- Shiites also said the government has paid some agents to infiltrate the group “to cause confusion and break their will
Sheikh Ibraheem Zakzaky
The Islamic Movement of Nigeria popularly known as Shiites have alleged that President Muhammadu Buhari led federal government is not ready to release the group’s leader, Sheikh Ibrahim Zakzaky.
Recall that a Federal High Court in Abuja gave the federal government a 45 days period to release the Shiite leader, who has been in custody since December, 2015.
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Shiites, in a statement signed by it’s media president said fresh devious plots have been uncovered aimed at scuttling the attempts to set the Sheikh free.
It is very vital to draw the attention of the general public to the series of evil designs by the authorities to flout court orders that the Sheikh be released along with his wife from the illegal detention for over a year. Information disclosed from very close and reliable sources close to the security services indicates that some agents within and outside the Movement have been commissioned to create an atmosphere that will be used as a bait to contravene the court order.”
The group said the government has paid some agents to infiltrate the group “to cause confusion and break their will, some other agents will intensify attacks on the Movement to demonize it using various ploys in the social media as well as in the mainstream media, with the aim of cutting off the momentous gain in sympathy of well-wishers, which the IMN enjoys since the court judgement.”
“One such deceitful move appeared only recently, when a news item from the country’s foremost news agency, NAN tried to portray IMN as factionalised. The fairy-tale has it that the Nigeria security and civil defence corps (NSCDC) says it has uncovered a “strange” factional sect of the Islamic Movement of Nigeria (IMN).”
Shiites described the report as baseless and completely false report that only reflects a figment of security's imagination.
“This story and perhaps many more to follow are all geared towards the government’s desperate attempt at creating a group that will take up arms in our name,” it stated.
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The group said stance remains clear, our resolve unshakable and our tenacity unwavering.
“It is much more worthwhile for the government to take the only honourable option to swallow its pride and as a matter of urgency obey the court order by releasing Sheikh Ibraheem Zakzaky, his family and all other members of the Movement still being held in illegal detention since December, 2015.”