PRESS RELEASE – Nigeria: International community must intervene to secure release of Islamic Movement leader

IHRC urges the Nigerian government to obey a court order and release the detained leader of Nigeria's Islamic Movement immediately.

Nigeria's High Court made the order to release Sheikh Ibrahim el-Zakzaky and his wife Zeenah on 2 December 2016 and stipulated a time-frame of 45 days for implementation.

That period expired yesterday with no signs that the country's state security services, who have held the pair for over a year, intend to abide by the terms of the order.

The Zakzakys have been held without charge and mainly incommunicado following their arrest during a savage military assault against the Islamic Movement of Nigeria (IMN) in December 2015. Both were shot during the attack in Zaria in which at least 1000 IMN supporters, including three sons of the couple, were killed and many properties and religious spaces belonging to the IMN and its followers destroyed.

IHRC is extremely concerned about the flagrancy with which the security services are continuing to flout both domestic and international law and indeed operate outside all legal norms. The failure to free the Zakzakys to date suggests that they are effectively a law unto themselves.

It is clear that left to their own devices, the Nigerian authorities have little desire or incentive to ensure that the rule of law is upheld.

For this reason IHRC calls on the international community to take concrete steps against Nigeria with the aim of securing the Zakzakys' freedom.

To this end IHRC will be presentimg further evidence to the International Criminal Court in relation to the illegal detention of the Zakzakys. This is in addition to our March 2016 petition to the ICC to to open a preliminary inquiry into the December 2015 massacre of IMN members.

IHRC has organised a vigil outside the Nigerian High Commission in London on Tuesday 17 January at 9-10.30pm.

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http://www.ihrc.org.uk/activities/press-releases/11837-press-release-nigeria-international-community-must-intervene-to-secure-release-of-islamic-movement-leader

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This issue of Zakzaky abi wetin wetin sef just dey linger on board like route wey no get direction. Shaybi dem say make dem free am na'? Anyway, wetin concern
Me? how does his freedom free Nigeria from recession?
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vedaxcool:
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You call them "fools" while you cheer for the unrepentant old fool and blind dictator and tyrant in aso Rock who continues his lawlessness, illegality and corruption. Killing innocent people and kidnapping citizens is the highest form of corruption on earth. After holding Sheikh Zakzaky and his wife incommunicado and now disobeying this court order, it is clearly a case of kidnapping Buhari has perpetrated and sooner or later, when in power or after leaving power, he must be held accountable by law.

By the time the IMN decide to take law into their hand, Buhari will be sorry. Sadly, people after him will have to clean up the mess he will leave behind. Imagine, the IMN start a campaign of road side bombs, suicide bombings and assassinations against security and political figures? That's not talking of an open ended battle where northerner will kill northerner and brother against brother, house to house and street to street. The north will become red desert! That truly when the country will become ungovernable. Maybe that is the scenario Buhari wants to provoke to cover up for his failure as president and have excuse to hide behind and to stoke sentiments to garner sympathy.

Buhari and whatever intelligence is misleading him have no idea of the hellfire they are pushing the country into through this dirty sectarian war Buhari has kindled using state apparatuses and resources. I don't know which sane government would continuous prefer strife to peaceful coexistence.

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shehu313:


You call them "fools" while you cheer for the unrepentant old fool and blind dictator and tyrant in aso Rock who continues his lawlessness, illegality and corruption. Killing innocent people and kidnapping citizens is the highest form of corruption on earth. After holding Sheikh Zakzaky and his wife incommunicado and now disobeying this court order, it is clearly a case of kidnapping Buhari has perpetrated and sooner or later, when in power or after leaving power, he must be held accountable by law.

By the time the IMN decide to take law into their hand, Buhari will be sorry. Sadly, people after him will have to clean up the mess he will leave behind. Imagine, the IMN start a campaign of road side bombs, suicide bombings and assassinations against security and political figures? That's not talking of an open ended battle where northerner will kill northerner and brother against brother, house to house and street to street. The north will become red desert! That truly when the country will become ungovernable. Maybe that is the scenario Buhari wants to provoke to cover up for his failure as president and have excuse to hide behind and to stoke sentiments to garner sympathy.

Buhari and whatever intelligence is misleading him have no idea of the hellfire they are pushing the country into through this dirty sectarian war Buhari has kindled using state apparatuses and resources. I don't know which sane government would continuous prefer strife to peaceful coexistence.

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that war you are finding shall happen only within your households .... nairalander should critically look at the people you are eagerly pushing their propaganda see their level of sanity and love for violence. Look at how he is campaigning for violence while claiming he is being pushed.... rubbish people everywhere.

vedaxcool:
Fools calling on their sponsors to bail them out...

vedaxcool:

that war you are finding shall happen only within your households .... nairalander should critically look at the people you are eagerly pushing their propaganda see their level of sanity and love for violence. Look at how he is campaigning for violence while claiming he is being pushed.... rubbish people everywhere.

I'll ask you a few questions:

1. Are orders of court to be obeyed?
2. If a party is dissatisfied with the outcome of a case, what is the proper procedure? An appeal or flagrant disregard of court order?
3. Is the FG and its agencies bound by the constitution to obey court orders?
4. Where the people decide to take laws into their hands since the lawful means is deliberately truncated and discarded by the custodian of the law, who will be liable for any ensuing breakdown of law and order?
5. Is Nigeria a lawless country? If not, what justification does the FG have to disregard court orders?

freeze001:



I'll ask you a few questions:

1. Are orders of court to be obeyed?
2. If a party is dissatisfied with the outcome of a case, what is the proper procedure? An appeal or flagrant disregard of court order?
3. Is the FG and its agencies bound by the constitution to obey court orders?
4. Where the people decide to take laws into their hands since the lawful means is deliberately truncated and discarded by the custodian of the law, who will be liable for any ensuing breakdown of law and order?
5. Is Nigeria a lawless country? If not, what justification does the FG have to disregard court orders?

good questions

vedaxcool:
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that war you are finding shall happen only within your households .... nairalander should critically look at the people you are eagerly pushing their propaganda see their level of sanity and love for violence. Look at how he is campaigning for violence while claiming he is being pushed.... rubbish people everywhere.

Why don't you condemn the terrorist in aso Rock who has actually killed innocent people? I am actually campaigner against violence by trying to open your eyes to the dangers the illiterate is pushing our country into. It is only Buhari and his fanatics who will call Nigerians funny names. You are in fact the rubbish for voting for an intolerant illiterate to govern such big and diverse country. He knows nothing constructive or positive. He only knows killings, kidnapping, arresting and jailing people. Is he a leader or a bully? Are Nigerians animals in his sight? 2019 should hurry up or let Almighty God rescue us.