The Centre for Social Justice, Equity and Transparency (CESJET) has demanded tough responses to Wednesday’s violent protests by the Shiite sect’s outlawed Islamic Movement in Nigeria (IMN), which led to over a dozen deaths across several cities in the northern parts of the country.

The centre asked security agencies and government at all levels to hold IMN responsible for the violence it is spreading across several cities.

A statement issued by CESJET’s Executive Director, Joyce Adamu blamed the Shiites for daring the state and attempting to create a parallel government and constitution for themselves in the name of freedom of religion.

The statement said IMN’s decision to attempt holding processions when it has been proscribed by an order of the Kaduna state government was provocative and was intended to breach the peace, provoke confrontation with security agencies and cause the kind of violent response witnessed on Wednesday.

It said IMN’s confrontations with citizens in Katsina, Kano, Sokoto and other states is an indication that people across Nigeria support their state governments to outlaw the extremist sect the way Kaduna state did and that the Federal Government must also outlaw the group as part of the nation’s counter terror efforts.

CESJET noted that “the Shiite group’s years of terror has made the people across the north to be united against the wave of terrorism by IMN members and that they are ready to stake anything to support the security agencies in curbing their menace. The people are vehemently against them in Funtua and Kaduna, which is a wake up call to the government that it must be proactive and respect people's will to avoid them taking law into their own hands.
“The leadership of IMN must be held responsible for the latest incidents of violence. They must be told in clear terms that their attempt to make laws for themselves to govern other Nigerians is the height of callousness and to dare the sovereignty of Nigeria is a life threatening provocation.

“We urge Nigerians of all faiths to resist the temptation of being brought down to the level of the IMN by losing regard for the sanctity of human life. They must at all times invite law enforcement agencies to deal with the Shiite menace as they are the only ones legally empowered to do so.

“Our appeal is that security agencies must shake off the blackmail mounted by international NGOs on behalf of IMN to do their work and go after trouble makers. Fanatics cannot be allowed to make the country ungovernable simply because their international allies keep throwing the threat of the International Criminal Court (ICC) in the faces of those entrusted with the safety of Nigerians.

“They should unravel the source of police uniform as well as the dangerous and sophisticated weapons found with the Shiites in Kaduna, Kaduna State and Funtua, Katsina State during the violence. Our concern is that their foreign sponsors might be secretly arming them.

“We demand that all other states, relying on the constitution and following the example of Kaduna state, immediately proscribe the IMN and outlaw its activities including processions that its members now use to launch attacks on Nigerians. An outright ban across all states is especially in the north because IMN has started to exhibit the tendencies of Boko Haram terrorist group and might be affiliating with other foreign terrorists groups such as ISIS and Hezbollah.

“The Federal Government must on its part recognise IMN as the new front in the war against terrorism and designate the movement as a terror group so that it can seek international support for preventing its funding from Iran,” the statement demanded.

I don't support terrorism/violence!

Neither am I a muslim!

I do believe most of these killings is an attemp to stamp out shi'a muslims from Nigeria by the sunnis!!

Our dear security agencies should please be careful in handling this issue!!!

This matter should be handled properly by these Northerners.
I don talk my own.

After dealing with the shites, the Sunnis will come for the Christians, this is serious, all lovers of justice must speak against this state sponsored violence.
Hell ruffian, we don see your hand work. You are nothing but a murderer.

Some brain-damaged nonentities won't see anything wrong in an outlawed group holding some cities to ransom with their procession. But when security personnel move in to disperse them and halt their illegal procession they come here to shout blue murder.

It's same eediots who support Dasuki, Dilector Kanu and Alex Badeh that support corrupt judges, Shiites' illegal procession and everything that is wrong in a society. Them swear for them?

shiite is not a sect but a religion you cant ban the religion of the people

Soon it will all explode. The government is poor at de-escalation (as expected from a Dullard) This brouhaha with the Shia will soon brew over tho' I think they will be crushed anyway. They can't go far like Boko Haram because this ones do not have the government's backing.

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PassingShot:
Some brain-damaged nonentities won't see anything wrong in an outlawed group holding some cities to ransom with their procession. But when security personnel move in to disperse them and halt their illegal procession they come here to shout blue murder.

It's same eediots who support Dasuki, Dilector Kanu and Alex Badeh that support corrupt judges, Shiites' illegal procession and everything that is wrong in a society. Them swear for them?

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PassingShot:
Some brain-damaged nonentities won't see anything wrong in an outlawed group holding some cities to ransom with their procession. But when security personnel move in to disperse them and halt their illegal procession they come here to shout blue murder.

It's same eediots who support Dasuki, Dilector Kanu, and Alex Badeh that support corrupt judges, Shiites' illegal procession and everything that is wrong in a society. Them swear for them?

oga you forgot to add Buhari, tinubu, amaechi, Buratai,Dambazzau, lawal and all the corrupt polithiefcians we have in Nigeria.

PassingShot:
Some brain-damaged nonentities won't see anything wrong in an outlawed group holding some cities to ransom with their procession. But when security personnel move in to disperse them and halt their illegal procession they come here to shout blue murder.

It's same eediots who support Dasuki, Dilector Kanu and Alex Badeh that support corrupt judges, Shiites' illegal procession and everything that is wrong in a society. Them swear for them?

U LEAVE UR SENSE FOR BED ?

Jeremyliness job on nairaland is to spread propaganda and sectarian hatred against the IMN and the Shia Muslims.

Same with the CESJET. Is that a legal society?

Is freedom of association not a constitutional and human right? Is el Rufai's ban constitutional?

If the IMN is banned in kaduna, why were they killed in katsina, sokoto and Jos? Is it also banned in those states?

Ashura is a religious ceremony for ALL Shia Muslims. How are you sure those who took part in the processions are all Shia Muslims who belong to the IMN? Or are you saying all Shia Muslims in Nigeria are IMN members or Zakzaky followers? What of Yoruba and Kogi Shia who do not belong to Zakzaky's IMN? What of foreigners like Indians, Lebanese, Pakistanis, Iranians and Iraqis who can be Shia Muslims? Are they IMN members? Are they outlaws for being Shia? Do they have freedom of worship? Shia Islam like a poster above rightly pointed is a RELIGION and not a sect or a group only found in Nigeria. It's found worldwide, just as Sunnis and Catholics are found worldwide. Izala is a Sunni group. Redeem is a Pentecostal group; Caritas is a catholic group; same way IMN is a Shia group.

Evidently, whenever the IMN is mentioned, they are referred to blankly or blanketed as "shia" or "Shiites" by people who don't know the difference between sect, religion and an organization or group. The ban on the IMN is just opposition and intolerance to shia beliefs as a whole by the majority Sunnis. Road block is just excuse. Sunnis block roads all the time on Fridays and Christians on Sunday's. If another shia group gains prominence in Nigeria and followers like the IMN, it too would be viewed with suspicion and as threat.

So you should keep your CESJET propaganda to yourself. It seems you have no better job than to spread propaganda against a religion found worldwide and against a group with millions of followers.

If you know the Shia very well, you'd use Iraq as example. They will not abandon their faith with threat of violence or terrorism. You inflict upon them violence and then blame them for disobeying law. They ask you for police license, you refuse and then blame them for illegal procession. That's unfair. In Iraq, Sunni terror groups have been bombing Shia processions and ceremonies especially on Ashura and Arba'een. During Arba'een twenty million Shia trek to Karbala. Has that stopped Shia from continuing to trek and hold processions? Shia view processions as religious obligation. Killing them and using force and made up unconstitutional law will not stop people from believing what they believe. You can only sit them down and get them to be orderly and organize them to curtail their excesses while you accommodate their religious differences. Such attacks, force and show of power will only alienate them further and shed more innocent blood. And don't forget, they are Nigerians; not aliens from outer space.

PassingShot:
Some brain-damaged nonentities won't see anything wrong in an outlawed group holding some cities to ransom with their procession. But when security personnel move in to disperse them and halt their illegal procession they come here to shout blue murder.

It's same eediots who support Dasuki, Dilector Kanu and Alex Badeh that support corrupt judges, Shiites' illegal procession and everything that is wrong in a society. Them swear for them?

must you always take sides with buharis view or that of his demonic cronies??..are you a zombie

must you be a follow follow...i hope this is how people are killed abroad where you live...you're so annoying...

Tunami:
oga you forgot to add Buhari, tinubu, amaechi, Buratai,Dambazzau, lawal and all the corrupt polithiefcians we have in Nigeria.

that guy is a strong hypocrite who lives abroad...dont take him serious...

Don't be shocked to see ipod yoots support "muslims" this time around.

bayelsaowei:
must you always take sides with buharis view or that of his demonic cronies??..are you a zombie

must you be a follow follow...i hope this is how people are killed abroad where you live...you're so annoying...

Don't you have a concrete wall next to you?

Feel free to use this then

PassingShot:

Don't you have a concrete wall next to you?

Feel free to use this then

Yeye...

U just dey behave anyhow like pikin..

They should not allow Nigeria to become another Pakistan.

bayelsaowei:


Yeye...

U just dey behave anyhow like pikin..

Do the needful joor!