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Re: Elzakzaky Protesters Attack National Assembly, Injure Police Officer [PICS] by egojiokwu(m): 2:31pm On Jul 09, 2019 |
Ok 1 Like |
Re: Elzakzaky Protesters Attack National Assembly, Injure Police Officer [PICS] by KidsNEXTdoor: 2:31pm On Jul 09, 2019 |
Buhari and his zombie supporters will burn this country to the ground 1 Like |
Re: Elzakzaky Protesters Attack National Assembly, Injure Police Officer [PICS] by noble2faith(m): 2:32pm On Jul 09, 2019 |
Civastarzy:
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Re: Elzakzaky Protesters Attack National Assembly, Injure Police Officer [PICS] by Nobody: 2:32pm On Jul 09, 2019 |
The govt should release the man. The man has not been sentenced, why detain him that long? It is the same man you aproached cap-in-hand in 2015 to seek endorsement. The FG should just make sure that they obtained some carefully-crafted undertaking from Elzakzaky and his handlers. This is democracy, the president and elrufai should not make their brand of Islam a national policy. There are Shi'ites in Saudi Arabia, Egypt and other Muslim countries. 1 Like |
Re: Elzakzaky Protesters Attack National Assembly, Injure Police Officer [PICS] by tuniski: 2:33pm On Jul 09, 2019 |
post=80093981:Wrong advice! If shiite go rogue you will run away from Lagos. It is like saying catholics or pentacostal should be crushed. |
Re: Elzakzaky Protesters Attack National Assembly, Injure Police Officer [PICS] by iwantolive: 2:34pm On Jul 09, 2019 |
Dhayor001:Why is Buhari holding their leader hostage? 1 Like |
Re: Elzakzaky Protesters Attack National Assembly, Injure Police Officer [PICS] by maxilly(m): 2:35pm On Jul 09, 2019 |
aminulive: If this group no become another terrorist group in the future, make I know wetin cause am. Na the starting be this |
Re: Elzakzaky Protesters Attack National Assembly, Injure Police Officer [PICS] by lomprico(m): 2:36pm On Jul 09, 2019 |
Hahahaha |
Re: Elzakzaky Protesters Attack National Assembly, Injure Police Officer [PICS] by izzou(m): 2:38pm On Jul 09, 2019 |
post=80093981: As much as we both have different views, which I respect, you are actually very insensitive The court has ordered for Zakzaky to be released and you're still asking Buhari to be brutal on them I used to think IPOB were going to be a thorn in this government's flesh, but the Shiites have proven me wrong 9 Likes 2 Shares |
Re: Elzakzaky Protesters Attack National Assembly, Injure Police Officer [PICS] by BuhariAdvocate: 2:39pm On Jul 09, 2019 |
The reason why their leader still kept from society is Because of their mission and vision..they should continue cause problem security agent will take care of them. |
Re: Elzakzaky Protesters Attack National Assembly, Injure Police Officer [PICS] by Zuorom: 2:39pm On Jul 09, 2019 |
Na police man dem carry like bag of beans like that These zakzaky protesters are mean 1 Like |
Re: Elzakzaky Protesters Attack National Assembly, Injure Police Officer [PICS] by mixta140: 2:41pm On Jul 09, 2019 |
Re: Elzakzaky Protesters Attack National Assembly, Injure Police Officer [PICS] by izzou(m): 2:41pm On Jul 09, 2019 |
BuhariAdvocate: The court has ordered for the leader to be released. My earnest prayer is for the leader to die in prison. This country won't enter all of us. That's a fact 2 Likes |
Re: Elzakzaky Protesters Attack National Assembly, Injure Police Officer [PICS] by Mufasa27(m): 2:42pm On Jul 09, 2019 |
Shibaraba:Amin Ase !!! 2 Likes |
Re: Elzakzaky Protesters Attack National Assembly, Injure Police Officer [PICS] by IamAtikulate: 2:43pm On Jul 09, 2019 |
Dhayor001:Nobody will cry blood so long as the use of force is proportionate. Using .50 mm military grade bullet like the presidential guard once did is condemnable |
Re: Elzakzaky Protesters Attack National Assembly, Injure Police Officer [PICS] by Deepthoughts: 2:44pm On Jul 09, 2019 |
Omotaday:majority of the Islamic terrorist organizations in the world are of the sunny sect,isis, Boko Haram,Abu zayyaf, Hamas, Islamic brotherhood,Al quaeda,etc,the issue of El zakzaky in Nigeria is simply an extension of the global struggle between the dominant sunni trying to crush the minority shi'ite period, Buhari n his majority sunnis are happy to present the shi'ite as the problem to the gullible n uninformed,if El zakzaky n his group committed any offence(s) why can't they simply be put on public trials or is indefinite detention now legal? oh I remember buhari is the law everything he does is right! to his supporters,but we should be careful in just condemning the shi'ite without digging deep n questioning buhari n his Apc government. 5 Likes 1 Share |
Re: Elzakzaky Protesters Attack National Assembly, Injure Police Officer [PICS] by BuhariAdvocate: 2:51pm On Jul 09, 2019 |
Nigeria is bigger than a group of people or individuals. izzou: |
Re: Elzakzaky Protesters Attack National Assembly, Injure Police Officer [PICS] by izzou(m): 2:53pm On Jul 09, 2019 |
BuhariAdvocate: All they are protesting is for their leader to be released. A court of competent jurisdiction has ordered for him to be released Or is Buhari bigger than the law? 2 Likes |
Re: Elzakzaky Protesters Attack National Assembly, Injure Police Officer [PICS] by jogsman01(m): 2:53pm On Jul 09, 2019 |
Shibaraba:Yeepa..... That one too much ooo 1 Like |
Re: Elzakzaky Protesters Attack National Assembly, Injure Police Officer [PICS] by atheistandproud(m): 2:55pm On Jul 09, 2019 |
Deepthoughts: This is someone who not only reads, but has common sense. Give this guy two star abeg. |
Re: Elzakzaky Protesters Attack National Assembly, Injure Police Officer [PICS] by Abeymills(m): 2:57pm On Jul 09, 2019 |
Buhari is evil this is happening live here in central area 1 Like
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Re: Elzakzaky Protesters Attack National Assembly, Injure Police Officer [PICS] by BuhariAdvocate: 2:57pm On Jul 09, 2019 |
They should release their leader so they can start their own government. izzou: 1 Like |
Re: Elzakzaky Protesters Attack National Assembly, Injure Police Officer [PICS] by Wolexdey(m): 2:58pm On Jul 09, 2019 |
They deserve to know the whereabout of their leader.
This is Democracy and not Militocracy. |
Re: Elzakzaky Protesters Attack National Assembly, Injure Police Officer [PICS] by Inteltower: 2:59pm On Jul 09, 2019 |
Who is El-Zakzaky?
65-year-old El-Zakzaky, a native of Zaria, Kaduna
was so impressed with the 1979 Iranian Revolution
so much that he travelled to Iran to become a Shia
cleric and import the second largest branch of
Islam into Nigeria, racking up an impressive
amount of followers in the 1990s in a country
that's dominated by Sunni Muslims.
The spiritual leader of the IMN is believed to be
committed to the goal of applying a more rigorous
application of the Islamic legal and administrative
systems to Nigeria and ultimately turn it fully into
an Islamic state.
His political ideal has remained turning Nigeria into
an Islamic Republic based on the Iranian model.
This is why he was one of the main opposition
against the application of Sharia Law in certain
states in the north, as he believes its total
application is impossible if the system of
government is not fully Islamic, devoid of any
other religion.
El-Zakzaky never attended a formal primary school
with his early education taking place at the
Provincial Arabic School, Zaria (1969-1970), the
School for Arabic Studies, Kano (1971-1976)
before he obtained a first class degree in
Economics at the Ahmadu Bello University (ABU),
Zaria (1976-1979), a degree that was denied him
due to his Islamic activities.
With his unpopular agenda for the Nigerian state,
El-Zakzaky has always been an adversary of the
government, both military and democratic.
He has spent around 11 to 12 years in total behind
bars due to his uncompromising agenda with the
most common offence being sedition or inciting
disaffection.
He was jailed two different times by the regime of
the late military Head of State, Sani Abacha. He
famously declared "there is no government except
that of Islam" during Abacha's regime.
El-Zakzaky's advocacy for an Islamic Republic has
invited personal tragedy into his life, most of it
wrought by the Nigerian Army.
During a pro-Palestinian procession by the IMN in
Zaria on July 25, 2014, soldiers fatally shot 35 of
El-Zakzaky's followers to death. Three of them,
Mahmud , Ahmad , and Hamid , were his sons.
The killings drew outrage with many
acknowledging that the procession had been
peaceful until the massacre happened. Even the
administration of then-president, Goodluck
Jonathan , distanced itself from it.
The Nigerian Army officially claimed soldiers acted
in self-defence and nothing came of an
investigation of what is popularly dubbed the Zaria
Quds Day massacres.
A year later, more personal tragedy was visited
upon El-Zakzaky's household, an episode that
continues to drag until now, three years later.
There are two versions of the events of what set off
the 2015 Zaria massacre of IMN members .
Regardless of whose story you believe, the one
true fact of the matter is that IMN members and
the convoy of the Chief of Army Staff, Lieutenant-
General Tukur Buratai, were on Sokoto Road in
Sabon Gari district, Zaria, at the same time on
December 12, 2015. This is where the narration of
events differ.
While the IMN claimed that unarmed worshippers
were attacked by the Army while conducting its
procession, the Army accused the sect of blocking
the path of the motorcade transporting the Army
Chief of Staff and stoning it, an act declared by the
Army to be an assassination attempt.
In the violence that escalated after then, over 300
Shia Muslims were killed by the Nigerian Army.
Troops attacked the group's shrines, firebombed
its religious center, the Husseiniyya, destroyed
another religious center on the outskirts of the city,
and firebombed and demolished El-Zakzaky's
home.
Again, three of those killed were El-Zakzaky's
sons.
During the invasion of his home, El-Zakzaky was
arrested and imprisoned with his wife, Zeenah , and
indefinitely kept out of the public eye for years
without any official court charges.
Despite a December 2016 court order by Justice
Gabriel Kolawole of an Abuja Division of the
Federal High Court demanding his release, El-
Zakzaky remained in custody and kept away from
prying eyes, leading to concerns that he might
have been killed.
Intense pressure and disturbing reports that he had
been extra-judicially murdered in custody forced
the Department of State Security (DSS) to parade
an ill El-Zakzaky in public in January 2018, his
first public appearance since he was arrested.
Five months later in May, he was finally arraigned
before a Kaduna High Court and charged with
unlawful gathering, criminal conspiracy and
culpable homicide.
The culpable homicide is in relation to the death of
Corporal Yakubu Dankaduna , a soldier who was
allegedly killed by IMN members when he alighted
from Buratai's convoy to disperse the group's
procession in December 2015. The allegation of
homicide is punishable by death, under section
190 of the Kaduna state penal code law, 2017.
Over the course of the past three years, the
Nigerian government's treatment of El-Zakzaky and
his Shia followers has invited the added accusation
of deliberate persecution especially since the
events of the period have happened under the
current administration of President Muhammadu
Buhari, a Sunni Muslim.
El-Zakzaky's commitment towards turning Nigeria
into an Islamic Republic will definitely not win him
many sympathisers, but there are fears that his
continued persecution could eventually lead the
IMN down the path of terrorist insurgency, much
like Sunni sect, Boko Haram, became after its
spiritual leader, Mohammed Yusuf , was extra-
judicially murdered by police officers in 2009.
The group's unending clashes with security
operatives have left a sour taste in the mouth and
heightened tensions across the country and many
have cautioned the government to tread lightly so
as not to create another security concern the
country will have to battle for years.
El-Zakzaky will continue to remain a significant
symbol in the Shia movement that has taken roots
in several states in the country due mostly to his
efforts.
With his propagation of the movement, the sect is
believed to own more than three hundred primary/
secondary schools, known as Fudiyyah Schools,
located in different places mainly in the northern
part of the country, as well as countless Islamic
centers and other institutions.
El-Zakzaky has made countless sacrifices in his
agitation for the Shia sect in Nigeria and handling
him and the Shia movement in isolation from the
letters of the law will make it hard to convince
anyone that it's anything other than a targeted
persecution.
SAMSON TOROMADE 1 Like 1 Share |
Re: Elzakzaky Protesters Attack National Assembly, Injure Police Officer [PICS] by ifyalways(f): 3:00pm On Jul 09, 2019 |
Why is he still being held after the courts granted him freedom ? 2 Likes |
Re: Elzakzaky Protesters Attack National Assembly, Injure Police Officer [PICS] by udemzyudex(m): 3:03pm On Jul 09, 2019 |
BuhariAdvocate: Pls just shut up, it's not a must to comment. |
Re: Elzakzaky Protesters Attack National Assembly, Injure Police Officer [PICS] by Angelfrost(m): 3:05pm On Jul 09, 2019 |
KidsNEXTdoor: Will? They lit the match since 2015... |
Re: Elzakzaky Protesters Attack National Assembly, Injure Police Officer [PICS] by Kingosytex(m): 3:09pm On Jul 09, 2019 |
izzou: Please bro, kindly ignore the suya guy you just mentioned, he is a confirmed and certified zombie. His stupidity stinks to high heavens. 4 Likes |
Re: Elzakzaky Protesters Attack National Assembly, Injure Police Officer [PICS] by Dolorsa: 3:19pm On Jul 09, 2019 |
codeplace:You dey forbid to leave Nigeria? |
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