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.

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

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.

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.

For media enquiries or further details please call +44 20 8904 4222 or +44 7958 522196 or +44 7426 728074[Ends]

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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Radical El-Rufai Loyal Thugs Protest At Gyellesu Under Full Invited Media Coverage

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NEWSRESCUEDECEMBER 4, 2016
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Under fully pre-invited main stream media coverage thugs loyal to radical Kaduna state government protested at Gyellesu, saying the illegally detained Islamic movement leader, el-Zakzaky was not wanted.

People were quick to comment:

Mohammed Mustapha
Mohammed Mustapha – ‏@momustafa101

@MuhdDarazo @elrufai is at it again! He hired hodlums to protest at Gyellesu dat Zakzaky is not welcom&payed pres to air it @shuaiba60661585
9:12 AM - 4 Dec 2016
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Probe Justice Kolawole’s Integrity For Callous Ruling To Further Punish Zakzaky, Wife, Family

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By NewsRescue
December 3, 2016

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Nigeria’s High Court judge, Justice Gabriel Kolawole Friday ruled the delayed release of Sheikh Ibrahim Zakzaky and his wife Zeenat. The Judge awarded N50 million in his ruling and said, “I have given the 45 days as a reprieve for the Inspector-General of Police, Attorney-General of the Federation in conjunction with the DSS to provide the new accommodation before their release.”

This passes as one of the most repulsive, ridiculous, insensitive and irresponsible rulings that can be imagined, to put it mildly, and raises serious questions about the integrity of the judge while casting further aspersion on the spate of the Nigerian judicial system as a whole.

Sheikh Zakzaky and his wife Zeenat have been held for a year unconstitutionally as justice Kolawole acknowledged in his ruling. Rather than order their immediate and unconditional release, Justice Kolawole further sentenced the victims of gross injustice to a time space of as many as 45 further days under the care of the very DSS and Federal Government who according to the ruling had transgressed the law and acted above the law by detaining the duo for a year already. This is an abuse of justice, an insult to reason and a gross violation of human rights being openly and brazenly sanctioned by Justice Gabriel Kolawole.

Justice Kolawole swore and oath to protect the constitution of Nigeria. He has already permitted the victims stay a year in jail with justice delayed thus far, while the constitution states that trial must be conducted within 48 hours arrest and Nigerians must be accorded bail as the law states. There are reasons for this which Justice Kolawole of all people should know and does know.

Would Justice Kolawole Like His Family To Be Detained 45 Days While They Look For A House For Them?

A day in jail denied justice is a sentence too long for a person, talk-less an additional days 45 days. One simply has to ask Justice Kolawole how he would feel if he is held in detention against his will and in violation of the constitution for 10 days. What if his wife is held for just 5 days? The Nigerian constitution does not have any provision for the detention of citizens while the government finds accommodation for them. This is ridiculous, preposterous and a clear case of grave perversion of justice.

After rejecting State counsel Tijani’s asinine claims of “protection custody,” the confused or extremely callous justice yet denied the victims their immediate right to freedom. Does Justice Kolawole think Nigerians are dogs to be locked up at will “while they look for house for them?” Such a judgement from the High court puts the probity of Nigeria’s entire judicial system into serious question and once again disgraces Nigeria to the observing world.

To add insult to injury, Sheikh Zakzaky and Zeenat being further detained against their will by the concerted team of Justice Kolawole, Nigeria’s Attorney General and the DSS under Buhari’s watch, are victims of a globally condemned brutal military action last December. From the 12th to the 14th the Nigerian army under authorization of General Tukur Yusuf Buratai invaded the home of Sheikh Zakzaky and shot him six times, shot his wife Zeenat at least three times and killed their three sons right in their faces according to accounts from the injured surviving eye-witness, their daughter Suhaila.

Their home was further instantly burned and demolished on the authority of the Kaduna state government headed by Nasir el-Rufai and the Chief of the Army. Not only this but the grave sites of three of their other sons killed the year before by the then Goodluck Jonathan-led Federal government, were exhumed.

Their three sons killed last December under the Buhari government and the bodies of their exhumed sons along with over 300 other Muslim victims were then secretly buried at night in a mass grave, only to be admitted to several months later. Having suffered this amount of unimaginable terror and trauma, Sheikh Zakzaky who suffered paralyzing injuries in the extra-judicial raid and lost his sight in one eye with the other on the verge of blindness, was detained and not allowed to meet with and mourn with his surviving son and two daughters. Zakzaky and wife have since been detained and not allowed to visit the graves of their children or to attend the wedding of last on Muhammad.

After all this, to imagine that a cold-blooded Justice Kolawole would delay their release and only award N50 million, the equivalent of $100,000 to the family who lost their children, home, livelihood, reputation and a year of their lives illegally and unconstitutionally detained, does not only beget the anger of man but invites the Wrath of God on the Justice and Nigeria as a whole.

We strongly implore the Nigerian Judicial counsel investigate Justice Gabriel Kolawole’s probity in this case and dissect him for embranglement and possible compromise.

The Judiciary is the last resort for the people and the backbone of the nation. The Judiciary is the only protection of the people and of the law, not even the president who swore and oath to abide by and defend the constitution without partiality to friend and without favor. No one must be above the law and the integrity of Nigeria’s judges directly determine the integrity of the nation.

Justice Gabriel Kolawole made no recommendations for the urgent investigation and arrest of the culprits in the December 2015 Zaria Massacre. He made no recommendations for the exhumation of Mando grave to look for Sheikh Zakzaky’s children’s bodies and ascertain the true culpability of those who broke the law and insulted God by secretly and criminally burying Zakzaky’s children and other Nigerians in such undignified manner.

Nigeria is suffering today due to God’s Wrath, a recompense for our actions. God answers the prayers of the oppressed even if they are disbelievers, the prophet of Islam allegedly warned.

It is time for Justice Gabriel Kolawole to retire.

It is also time for the immediate and unconditional release of Sheikh Ibrahim Zakzaky and his wife Zeenat and for their compensation commensurate with the crimes against Nigeria’s conscience and the entire record of children of Adam, mounted on them.

Dr. Peregrino Brimah; @EveryNigerian



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Why El-Rufai is at war with IMN

abdulmumingiwa in Uncategorized November 30, 2016 1,424 Words

By Abdulmumin Giwa

A lot of people wonder why the Kaduna State Governor Nasir El-Rufai is engaging in an all-out war against Islamic Movement in Nigeria (IMN) and its revered leader Sheikh Ibraheem Zakzaky. The reason is not far-fetched.

It would easily be recalled that El-Rufai condemned the Goodluck Jonathan’s administration for killing the three sons of the IMN leader in an attack on the IMN where 34 members were killed by the Nigerian Army.

He was quick at going to the Sheikh’s Gyallesu residence in Zaria to condole him.

It even caused a dent on his political image on the side of his now newly found allies the Wahabi inclined Izala sect of whom Boko Haram is an offshoot, who accused him of becoming a Shiite. He had to go on radio to explain that he condoled a fellow Muslim on humanitarian grounds and that he was not Shiite.

At that time he never saw anything wrong with the IMN and its leadership because indeed nothing is ever wrong with them. At that time the Izala clerics were fully funded by the Jonathan’s administration to help campaign for him.

They were even beneficiaries of the Dasukigate where they got N500 million.

They even published posters of El-Rufai shaking hands with Sheikh Zakzaky claiming that El-Rufai was coming with a Shiite agenda just to sway public opinion against him. But the blind APC change trend didn’t allow their propaganda against him to be effective.

But a lot of those Izala sectarians did not vote for him but more IMN members went to vote in his favor for showing concern with the plight of their leader.

On assuming power, for reasons best known to the Wahhabi APC government, they decided to clampdown on the IMN with the intention of killing the Leader, dispersing the members and banning the IMN.

This operation was strongly supported and planned by the global imperialists that brought the APC to power. That even explains the romance between the Buhari regime and John Kerry of America who visited Buhari before elections, attended the swearing-in, visited northern Nigeria, received Buhari in the US and also Buhari’s financial contribution to Hillary Clinton’s political ambition.

I am still on course, this team of Americans in a romance with the Nigerian regime are the same team along with the Saudi regime that are founding and funding terrorist organizations that include ISIS/DAESH, Al-Qaeda, Taliban and Boko Haram.

There is nothing hidden about this and their activities in Syria, Bahrain, Yemen and even in Nigeria.
With their influence and control over the Nigerian regime they connected them to the international club where the Nigerian President confidently displayed himself as a Wahhabi agent serving the interest of Saudi Arabian monarchy. He hosted their world conference, he was visited by high leveled delegation along with their Nigerian agents from the Izala sect, they took President Buhari to Saudi Arabia and opened the gates of the Ka’abah for him and even presented him with a piece of cloth from the Ka’bah.

For this the president was ready to kill anybody that identifies with Shiite faith in Nigeria and so they plotted the Zaria massacre. The plot actually failed because the IMN leader they killed did not die and it became a problem for them trying to cover up genocide.

The Izala sect went closer to El-Rufai to exploit the situation to buy him over. The Saudis were willing to part with millions of Dollars for any northern Nigerian governor that would buy into their plot of eliminating the Shiites they see as a threat to their influence and interest in Nigeria.

On the side of the Izala and the Wahhabi regime of Saudi Arabia it was a very big problem for them how Shiite Islam was gaining grounds due to exodus of people from Sunni to Shiah Islam. They have funded the Izala to spread hate against the Shiites and division among Muslims in the country in general.

They used some relief foundations in funding the clerics most notably the Islamic International Relief Organization, IIRO. This organization was banned under the suspicion that it was providing funds to terrorists. It built several Izala schools and mosques in the country as part of its activities in the country.

The Izala had declared all other Muslims that don’t follow their ideas as infidels and polytheist. They have records of religious crises with the Christians in Nigeria especially in Kaduna and Jos in particular. A thing never engaged in by Shiites. In fact the extension of brotherhood and humanity to Christians by the Shiites is always condemned by the Izala.

The IMN to them is generally seen as the umbrella of Shiite Islam and if they successfully bring it down they have finished with Shiites and Shiism in Nigeria.

Already on the international scene the Saudis are allies with America and Israel who are all self-appointed enemies of the Islamic Republic of Iran. America, Israel and Saudi Arabia see the IMN as a threat to their interests. The growth of IMN to them is a growing Iranian influence and so they must join forces together to eliminate it. That was why the Zaria massacre never attracted any mainstream international media reports. Because it was all part of the plot to play it low.

With his ambition of wanting to become Nigeria’s president, El-Rufai found an opportunity in joining the team full time to be able to be anointed by the team as the next Nigerian President.

The Saudis were said to have promised funding El-Rufai’s 2019 presidential campaign with millions of petro-dollars if he could bring an end to Shiites. They have also displayed this by bribing the governors with millions of dollars as they did to the Malaysian president to help disperse the Shiites.
He is now faced with crimes against humanity at the International Criminal Court (ICC) for his role of mass buying 347 IMN members in violation of the Geneva Convention, Kaduna state laws and religious laws where many people were even buried alive. He has to make all possible efforts to ensure he blackmails the IMN to justify the crimes they committed against it.
He is now busy concocting lies and fabrications against the IMN accusing it of training a military, being a threat to Nigeria’s sovereignty, and not recognizing constituted authorities without even presenting any facts or evidence.

El-Rufai has funded a lot of provocative activities to push the IMN into violence but the movement had resisted, including attacking IMN members in communities in Kaduna, killing them and looting their property, burning their residences, demolishing their schools and health centers all with the hope that they react in violence. He started by banning the IMN in the state and spreading official hate speeches against the IMN. He is now happy with his newly found Wahabi Izala faith that he even went to apologize to for teargasing them during a leadership fracas they had some Fridays ago.

As a state governor the same lies he propagate against the IMN are the same lies members of his Wahabi Izala sect are propagating around but without presenting any proof or facts.

El-Rufai is so deeply confident of his funds for his 2019 presidential ambition from Saudi Arabia that he is now engaging his mentors by abusing and insulting people like former vice president Atiku Abubakar that brought him to limelight and Olusegun Obasanjo that made him the FCT minister. Both of them now describe him as a betrayer, a pathological liar and an opportunist.

These are simply some of the reasons why Nasir El-Rufai is in an all-out war with the IMN. But actually it will not succeed because the Saudis are fast running bankrupt being a mono-economy that depends solely on petro-dollars. The US has squeezed them so tight that they have made a whopping $30b dollar from arms purchase for its war in Syria and Yemen.

Saudi Arabia has been spending so much funding terrorism and war across the globe that it had fallen into recession. It has now reverted to using Gregorian calendar to raise more funds from workers’ salaries from the differences in days between the lunar calendar and the Gregorian calendar.

Workers are now protesting non-payment of salaries in Saudi Arabia as well. Definitely El-Rufai will not succeed in his fight against the IMN as he is possibly going to end his life in jail for crimes against humanity as ICC is set to investigate him and others.

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@Elbinawi Tweets on the rantings of @elrufai on @voahausa

November 28, 2016Uncategorized

@Elbinawi Tweets on the rantings of @elrufai on @voahausa:

Desperate Gov @elrufai was at it again this morning on @voahausa attacking IMN & Shia Islam. @elrufai buried 347 Shias alive in mass grave

@elrufai told @voahausa that IMN is a threat to d sovereignty of Nigeria.Nigerians know @elrufai as a pathological liar & this is part of it

For the more than 40 years of it existence IMN have never threatened the cooperate existence of Nigeria as a nation. @elrufai @voahausa

IMN have never killed or harm any Nigerian in its 40 years of existence. IMN have always call for peace & unity. @elrufai @voahausa

IMN is always the victim of attacks by murderous BokoHaram terrorists & successive Nigerian governments. @elrufai @voahausa

The present @MBuhari government killed 1000+ IMN members last December & dumped their bodies in mass graves. This is evil @elrufai @voahausa

The @MBuhari government organized Wahhabi thugs to attack IMN members during the Ashura ceremonies & destroy properties. @elrufai @voahausa

@MBuhari govt opened fire on #ArbaeenTrekNigeria in Kano killing 100+ IMN members & dumped their bodies in mass graves. @elrufai @voahausa

Despite all these Savage & inhuman attacks by the Saudi dog @MBuhari & his murderous cabal @elrufai, IMN chose to remain peaceful. @voahausa

Nigerians should point to me any group in Nigeria that will tolerate d savagery of @MBuhari & @elrufai & remain peaceful like IMN? @voahausa

@MBuhari The @elrufai ranting on @voahausa today should be seen as the desperate action of a criminal who is about to be a visitor to #ICC.

@MBuhari Gov @elrufai was elected to govern Kaduna state. Why can’t he concentrate on that? Why is he a tool of the Saudi regime? @voahausa

President @MBuhari & @elrufai spend more time planning on how to kill innocent Nigerians than on governance. They are evil people. @voahausa

IMN under the leadership of Sheikh Zakzaky have been peaceful & despite the savagery of @MBuhari & @elrufai will remain peaceful. @voahausa

Nigeria is a great country with great people but with evil leaders @MBuhari, @elrufai etc who mass-murdered Nigerians to please Saudi king.

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We are being pushed to the wall
By Abdulmumin Giwa
I have heard a lot of commendations on the peaceful conduct of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria (IMN) under the revered leadership of His Eminence Sheikh Ibraheem Zakzaky (H) which is so matured in its thought and ideas to the extent of managing itself through most tempting situations.
The IMN had been attacked on several occasions where its members are mercilessly killed and their property destroyed by the Nigerian government and its military and security agents.
I can sight some few major attacks on the IMN that include that of Sokoto in 2003 where 15 IMN members were butchered by government hired touts, their shops and residences were set ablaze and razed to ground for no just cause apart from sectarian hatred.
About 110 of them were jailed only to be released after finding out that they were not guilty. The Sokoto state government was instructed to pay compensation and that was all. The IMN members returned home and continued their activities after spending four years behind bars for no just course.
The IMN never looked back with the intention of revenge or counter-attack and that was how everything ended.
In Potiskum, in May 2012 the Islamic center was attacked by “unknown gunmen” wanting to kill Sheikh Mustapha Nasidi who was heading the center. His immediate younger brother and other members were brutally killed but they missed killing him. There also the bullet shells and magazines found at the scene were carrying the Nigerian Police and military colors proving who actually attacked.
In the same center in 2014 and inn 2015 there was a bomb attack at a gathering of children where several of them were also brutally killed and the government blamed the attack on Boko Haram.
The IMN also never looked back with the intention of revenge or counter-attack and that was how everything ended.
There was also the attack on the Quds Day procession in 2014 by the Nigerian Army who killed 34 IMN members after the peaceful procession. There they abducted three of Sheikh Zakzaky’s sons and tortured them to death in the army barracks.
There too a lot of tension was raised expecting an uncontrollable outburst by the IMN but the leader of the Movement simply called for calm and that was all nothing happened thereafter.
There was also the Zaria massacre that witnessed the mass murder of over 1000 IMN members by the Nigerian Army. The Kaduna state government in collaboration with the Army buried 347 IMN members in one of the mass graves discovered by the Amnesty International (AI) at Mando in Kaduna. They also burned down the residence of the IMN leader and later demolished it. They demolished the Hussainiyya Baqiyyatullah, they demolished Fudiyya Islamic center, they demolished Darur Rahma and the tomb of Sheikh Zakzaky’s mother.
The Army in that attack also burned IMN members alive including the elder sister of the IMN leader. They also killed another set of three sons of Sheikh Zakzaky, shot him and his wife severally and detained them for 10 months now without trial or any charges. All these crimes against humanity took place because of a purported blockage of the convoy of the Chief Of Army Staff (COAS).
That also did not attract any violent reaction from the IMN. Peaceful steps of seeking redress were taken by the movement in courts within and outside Nigeria. The IMN embarked on peaceful demonstrations and rallies calling for the immediate and unconstitutional release of the revered leader. Nobody was attacked and no violence was engaged in even as the government had severally attempted provoking the IMN into violence but all to no avail.
During the 2015 the Arba’een trek from Kano to Zaria was also attacked by government agents flanked as Boko Haram who were actually caught. Several IMN, members were killed in the bomb attack and scores were also injured in that deliberate attempt to scare members away from that religious symbol. There too the trekking continued to Zaria without any situation.
As one of the cases at the Federal High Court in Abuja is progressing and the judge is expressing dismay with the irresponsibility, human rights violation and national embarrassment perpetrated by the Nigerian government, he advised the Nigerian government to settle out of court with the IMN to avoid his ruling.
The Kaduna state Governor Nasir El-Rufai decided to escalate the situation by disregarding the constitutional provision of rights to worship, rights to associate and rights not to be discriminated at and he used flimsy and unsubstantiated reasons and arrogated to himself the power to ban the IMN. He banned the IMN hoping for a reprisal from it to use to blackmail it. All the IMN did was to continue with its peaceful activities and reminded him of the constitutional provisions and refused to be banned.
He engaged his Wahhabi brothers in the fight against the IMN who he funded along with the state machinery and mobilized a force against the IMN members who he attacked and killed three and injured several others in Kaduna during the recently concluded annual Ashura event, burned the IMN center in Kaduna and two primary schools owned by the IMN.
What is worse is that the impoverished citizens and the Wahhabi collaborators who have no jobs, no food, no security, no healthcare services, no education and no basic life infrastructures due to government incompetence were exploited and paid N5000 to kill any Shiite in the state they see.
The Kaduna state Governor had fully engaged himself in the criminal act of minority cleansing using the opportunity of the public office he is occupying. He now wants every Shiite killed because he is a Wahhabi governor.
One of the video clips of the El-Rufai attack on Shiites in Kaduna showed how his sponsored thugs brutally murdered IMN members under the protection of the police and Army. It showed how an IMN member already stabbed and cut severally was mutilated to death. The El-Rufai thug was using a big stone to break the IMN member’s head open while the other thug was pulling him inside refuse. The genocide spearheaded by El-Rufai on IMN members in Kaduna was terrible.
This is what brings me to my earlier statement that we are being pushed to the wall. We are human beings and we have our limits and we even have a limit to the level of restraint we are demonstrating that people are ignorantly exploiting.
It would be highly deceptive and foolish to presume that we will just continue to look on as you come-kill-and-go of us. Yes we are indeed peaceful and non-violent but there are peaceful ways of self-defense as well that might not be pleasing to those who take pleasure in killing us.
Remember that those you are killing are our wives, our sisters, our mothers, our brothers, our husbands, our friends and our relations. Lest anybody feels he cannot observe restraint any longer he should not be blamed. This is unjust and unfair.
Just like Barr. Ebeneza Oyetakin, I wouldn’t want a situation whereby the government would come to start begging for dialogue when everything has been nursed by the greedy Nigerian leaders into an unwanted situation.
I feel it is the responsibility of right-thinking people, people of conscience and the human right organizations to call the Kaduna state governor to order lest he creates an unfavorable situation.
There is no way anybody at all can stop us from becoming Shiites no matter how much he despises the religion and no matter how fanatical he is about hiss Wahhabism. The IMN is close to 40 year now in existence in Nigeria and the adherents practice the faith out of conviction and not imposition. It is most deceptive for anyone to think he can use force to eliminate it as no member was forced to join.
The IMN is non-violent and cannot be provoked into violence, but the members of the IMN are equally human beings and have the right to defend and protect their lives against predators. We are aware that the public is never our enemy and we can never be provoked or pushed into engaging in any form of violence with the public. But have the right to defend ourselves and circumstances would lead to that.
Our blood is not as cheap as the blinded self-appointed enemies of the IMN see it. We are being pushed to the wall lest we push back, those concerned should speak out and now is the time to speak out.

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IMN Ban: PDP TO ELRUFAI
This is to draw the attention of Kaduna State Governor Malam Nasir Ahmed El-Rufai with respect to the purported ban he placed on the Islamic Movement of Nigeria (IMN). The Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria (1999) as amended in Cap IV, section 38(1) says:
"Every person shall be entitled to freedom of thought, conscience and religion, including freedom to change his religion or belief, and freedom (either alone or in community with others, and in public or in private) to manifest and propagate his religion or belief in worship, teaching, practice and observance."
From the foregoing, it is clear that the Governor acted outside the bounds of his powers and he is this advised to reverse his declaration as it will not stand the test of legitimacy in the law courts. This has become more imperative as the Shi'ite group he is purported to ban are not known for violence.
The religious group is also hereby advised to desist from blocking roads or causing nuisance while discharging their religious duties.
We should all strive to work very hard together to ensure the sustenance of peace and tranquility in our diverse but volatile societies in accordance with our laws. We must not forget that these kind of ill advised unilateral decisions could lead to an otherwise peaceful group of people to switch underground thereby adding extra work to the already overworked security agencies.
Barr. Bashir Maidugu
(Ag. National Legal Adviser, PDP)

Proceedings at the 31st and 32nd Sessions of the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva, Switzerland on the Zaria Massacre


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3JM1gGiEFMg


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNZe9eZP5Xc

PRESS STATEMENT

SOLDIERS THIRSTY FOR SHIA BLOOD IN POTISKUM


Today, 21/08/16, a contingent of military personnel in at least five trucks with armored vehicles encircled the Islamic Centre of the Islamic Movement in Potiskum, Yobe state. After a few hours of the siege, they left without any incident. However, concerned residents in the neighborhood are apprehensive of what might happened in the night.

Confirmed reports have it that for the past ten days soldiers have been reinforcing and patrolling the town chanting war songs. Fear of possible attack last Friday during and after Juma’at prayers made people to run in all directions for their lives.

Earlier, warnings were made in various mosques by local and traditional leaders in Fika Emirate of an "imminent war" by army in Potiskum. In the same vein, the Yobe State Commissioner for religious affairs, Alh. Mala Musti has been going to Local government headquarters in the state making hate campaign speeches against Shia Islamic faith and the Islamic Movement, saying that they are unbelievers whose lives and properties must be destroyed.

It seems certain therefore that the state government and the traditional authorities in Potiskum have joined forces with the Federal government to spill blood of innocent civilians under the pretence of fighting "war" on what they mislabeled "religious extremism".

The Islamic Movement in Nigeria (IMN) will like to draw the attention of all peace loving citizens in particular and the world in general to yet another impending massacre by the Nigerian army in the same way it did in Zaria in December, 2015 killing over a thousand lives extrajudicially. We believe that the government is employing state apparatus to spill the blood of innocent citizens of this country unjustifiably.

Members of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria and Yobe state in particular are no different from those found all over the federation and who are known to be peace loving citizens living an exemplary life.

This step is clearly a contradiction of what the presidency recently claimed that it is a government that is mindful of human rights of its citizens. In the contrary, it has sent its Military to kill innocent people without recourse to the rule of law. The Federal government would be held responsible for the life of any citizen killed unjustly by any of its agency or agents.

SIGNED BY
IBRAHIM MUSA
PRESIDENT MEDIA FORUM OF IMN
0805 078 6093
21/08/16

Source: www.islamicmovement.org

#FreeZakzaky

fiizznation:
Shehu313, I have been ignoring all your lies and half truths in all the threads you normally open. You always give this pseudo picture of Shia's as a peaceful and law abiding citizens which is entirely false. The average Shi'a member I know is very violent, hot-tempered and a liar. Elzakzaky has been having problems with the authorities since the days of late sani abacha. At some point, abacha had to order the khaki boys to bring elzakzaky to aso villa in a black maria van. He was warned seriously by abacha to desist from his violence tendencies and all that. And this thing happened in the 90s.

Fast forward to 2000, your messiah, your own personal demigod{elzakzaky} started terrorizing the people of Zaria with his beliefs, the man also have total disregard for law. And you his diehard followers were cheering and following the man like people without brains. If elzakzaky says jump into a canal, I know most of you will do that. If elzakzaky says take up sticks and confront the Nigeria army, many of you will do that without thinking about any repercussions.

You Shia's constitute yourselves as nuisance by walking for hundreds of miles from one state to another and at the same time blocking every federal road plus intimidating and harassing people. If your demigod is going for any outing, nobody dares to move again. He carries entourage like a President. Your windscreens are broken if you dare to overtake his convoy. You people have made life so unbearable for the people of Zaria by your lawless and silly 'religious' acts. And that's why even the people of Zaria were happy with what the soldiers did you guys.

You can only deceive people that have no idea about how you Shia's are with your lies, but every northerner that knows you guys will only laugh at your ridiculous lies. Nevertheless, I'm not in support of the barbaric act of the NA towards you guys, but you my friend, you better stop lying to people.

All the rantings to justify massacre and then you claim not to support the killings. Hypocrite is the word! Why didn't you spend as much time condemning the atrocities of the army? You should even spend more time condemning the atrocities of the army than ranting about your alleged instance of lawlessness committed by civilians who killed no one in the history of the IMN for four decades.

All the crimes you accuse the Shia Muslim followers of Zakzaky and the IMN of committing are civil disturbances if true. Do they warrant preplanned killings of this magnitude?

All you are complaining about civilians of a particular belief not being law abiding lies in the truth that there is religious persecution by state institutions. If the IMN request for police permit for processions which take place a few times a year (twice or thrice) and for state protection and cooperation to safeguard the lives of millions of Nigerians who are Shia Muslims and follow the IMN, the police based on prejudice will not issue permit. This tactic has been ongoing. Then when people exercise their right of freedom of association and take to the roads, they are shot and labeled outlaws because they don't have police permit. The same police permit you refuse to issue based on prejudices. This is the persecution and unfair treatment the dishonest establishment trying to appease diehard Wahhabi Sunni clerics have meted on the Shia. And neither the bullets nor the lies will dissuade the Shia from their religious beliefs and practices. Keep committing crimes against humanity in this transient world. You will face justice if not in this world, certainly in the next. You have chosen persecution as a means to dissuade people from practicing their faith instead of tolerance and accommodation. What is right is right. And what is wrong is wrong even if you rant for a thousand years.And those who committed the ugly crimes will have a day when justice will SURELY be served to them in one way or form or the other. This massacre will not just be forgotten especially when Buhari feels he's a high god. He will have to go down on his knees and beg if at all he stands a chance of forgiveness.

And you are stupidly talking about successive military regimes detaining Zakzaky. Have you wondered why Zakzaky was not detained by obasanjo and yaradua and even Jonathan? Because those are either Christians and civilian presidents or both. Each and every tyrant that has detained Zakzaky unjustly was a military dictator and a Sunni tyrant. That is the common factor. The animal instinct of a soldier and the wickedness of (diehard Wahhabi) Sunni). Even when the same army shot 34 people under Jonathan in 2014, Jonathan personally phones Zakzaky to apologize immediately; to show you that he had no hand in it. Yet the apc used the incident for political incitement. El rufai claimed the "Jonathanian army committed genicide" by killing 34 Shia in a procession in 2015. But in 2015 under an apc government, over a thousand were killed and buried in mass graves, and it is being justified by wicked people like you and Buhari. Jonathan didn't order for any shooting. He didn't go on tv to justify killing people in a peaceful procession like Buhari did. He didn't order for shooting and brutalizing Zakzaky and his wife and then jailing them indefinitely without charge. But Tyrant Buhari has done all of these in broad daylight and in supposedly democratic dispensation. You forgot to mention that this same Buhari is the one who first detained Zakzaky illegally when the former was a military head of state without charge. He is repeating the same illegality as civilian president. This isn't the first time Buhari is displaying his Sunni prejudices and wickedness. And even when abacha detained Zakzaky to intimidate him it was the likes of Buhari that influenced abacha.

List of 10 Crimes Against Humanity Committed in Zaria By Buhari's Army

1. They shot with live bullets to kill protesters blocking a road so His Royal Majesty, the King of Medieval Nigeria, Buratai can pass.

2. The army doctored a video which doesn't show the Shiites of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria "throwing the first stone". The video shows exuberant youths armed with stones and sticks blocking a road during a procession that included women and children.

3. Buhari's army, after clearing passage for HRM Buratai attacked innocent Shiites at four other locations in Zaria. Gyellasu/Zakzaky's house, the Husseiniyah (a Shiite congregation hall), Darur Rahma cemetery, and Fudiya School. Those Shiites massacred in these locations were not on the road protesting or blocking the road and preventing the medieval king of Nigeria passage. It was jungle justice, collective punishment and unleashing terror to persecute people who shared the same beliefs with those who blocked a road. And don't forget blocking roads is a daily phenomenon in Nigeria by all religions and even political leaders.

4. 347 people confirmed dead and hundreds still missing and in prisons without charge.

5. Those killed were packed into truckers like bush meat and their bodies dumped into mass graves by the army and under the watch of El Rufai's Kaduna government.

6. Three biological sons of Zakzaky were killed.

7. Zakzaky and his wife who were not on the road or denying passage to the Butcher of Zaria, Buratai were shot and brutalized and to this day they both remain in custody under the false premise of "protective custody".

8. All properties attacked and destroyed during the attacks were demolished and evidences cleared.

9. Zakzaky is said to have lost his eye due to the brutality he suffered in the hands of soldiers.

10. Women were reportedly stabbed on their private organs and some reportedly r a p e d while rampaging Nigerian soldiers were chanting sectarian anti-Shia slogans.


And Nigerians wonder why there is hunger and economic crisis in a land where the blood of the innocent is spilled and no justice is done. It's divine punishment for tyranny by the Tyrant Buhari led government. Buhari should not pretend he didn't support the operations to kill innocent Nigerians in Zaria. And neither should El Rufai pretend to be remorseful. These evil tyrants along with their butcher (Buratai) belong to prison of the ICC in The Hague. No Nigerian can feel safe with such men at the helm of affairs and with the level of tyranny unleashed and the injustice prevailing. It is heartbreaking and scary. This is the worst massacre committed in the history of Nigeria in time of peace.

#FreeZakzaky

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Nigeria awaits Buhari, el-Rufai over Zaria Shiite panel report
by Idowu Akinlotan, July 24, 2016 at 12:01 am in Idowu Akinlotan

RESPONDING to criticisms over their handling of last December’s Shiite disturbance in Zaria during which hundreds of lives were lost, both President Muhammadu Buhari and Kaduna State governor, Nasir el-Rufai, appealed to Nigerians to wait for the outcome of the judicial probe of the crisis. Despite the urgency of the matter and the unquantifiable pains the disturbance inflicted on hundreds of families, interested parties managed to exercise the requisite patience. Finally, and even though the report has not been officially released, the media have published glimpses of the conclusions and indictments contained in the report. Headed by Justice Mohammed Garba of the Federal Court of Appeal, Port Harcourt, the 13-man panel confirmed 349 dead, probably all Shiite members.... The panel indicted the General Officer Commanding Nigerian Army Ist Division, Kaduna, Oyeniyi Oyebade, a major-general, and a certain A.K. Ibraheem, a colonel, for mishandling the crisis and using disproportionate force.
According to witnesses, some of them government officials, victims of the massacre were buried in two mass graves, with some of the corpses conveyed in military trucks. Yet, the army said it counted only seven people killed. The public will now wait for government’s response to the very damning report, the first coming from Kaduna State government, the second from the army, and the third from the federal government. Given the way they initially approached the crisis, all three will be uncomfortable in responding to the obvious crimes against humanity committed by the soldiers. The army, it was clear, used excessive force when, according to the panel, it could have chosen alternative routes for their commanders to pass through Zaria. Until the report is released officially, it is not certain what the panel found out concerning the army’s theory that Shiite members planned to assassinate the Chief of Army Staff (COAS), Lt.-Gen. Tukur Buratai.

The second responder, Kaduna State government, also mishandled the crisis abysmally by prejudging the Shiites and demolishing their headquarters after the massacre. The religious group did not have building permits, the governor had said. Then finally, the Buhari presidency, basing its conclusions on unstated intelligence or findings, condemned the Shiites for attempting to set up a government within a government. There can be only one government, the president bristled during a media chat shortly after the disturbance.

Commentators had noted immediately after the clash and the attendant massacre that the army’s disproportionate response and the state and federal governments’ connivance were fuelled by their hubristic interpretation of the powers of government and their inchoate appreciation of the fundamentals of democracy and the power of the ballot paper.
It now remains to be seen how both Mallam el-Rufai and President Buhari, in that order, will respond to the panel’s report. The judicial probe has called for the prosecution of the two named officers and other senior officers who participated in the massacre. Though the panel also blamed the government for its lack of proactive response to malfeasant and troublesome groups, including the often obtruding and disruptive Shiites, the main quandary the government will face will be how to disengage the officers and prosecute them. Much worse, the Kaduna State governor himself condoned the killings by his insensitive statements shortly after the clash and then took steps to, as it were, erase the presence of the Shiites in their Zaria redoubt. The president and the governor will obviously find out soon that the loathing they claimed the neighbours of Shiites in Zaria harbour against the religious group has no evidential value in mitigating the atrocities committed against its members. They will also discover that mass burial and the lack of records of victims constitute obstruction of justice.

It will not be enough for the Kaduna State government to release a White Paper on the crisis. The governor must come to terms with his comments and attitude over the clash. He will need to show remorse and offer a full apology. Next, the president himself must show remorse for the very biased and casual manner he dismissed the clash and prejudged the Shiites. He needs to issue a full apology as well. Then they must go on to make full amends for the oppressive and atrocious manner they have treated the leader of the movement, El-Zakzaky, whom the Department of State Service has detained unlawfully for many months. If they are smart, they must open talks with the Shi’a Movement and discuss compensation. Otherwise, armed with the report, whenever it is issued, the Shiites will exact a terrible price from the government. And if the government decides unwisely to bury or distort the report, the International Criminal Court (ICC) will be petitioned to retrieve the report and call the government, including those not indicted by the panel, to account. The federal and state governments, and the army are in unwinnable positions. The sooner they realise it, the better.

http://thenationonlineng.net/nigeria-awaits-buhari-el-rufai-zaria-shiite-panel-report/

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El-Rufai, Don't Kill The Zaria Massacre! By Emmanuel Ugwu

Sahara Reporters

In the wake of the massacre of hundreds of Nigerians in Zaria by the Nigerian Army, Kaduna state governor, Nasir El-Rufai, empanelled a judicial commission of inquiry and mandated it to investigate the tragedy. That commission has concluded its assignment and submitted its report. Mr. El-Rufai now faces a binary choice: To use the report as an instrument for the pursuit of justice or to consign it to the dump.

BY EMMANUEL UCHENNA UGWU
JUL 23, 2016

In the wake of the massacre of hundreds of Nigerians in Zaria by the Nigerian Army, Kaduna state governor, Nasir El-Rufai, empanelled a judicial commission of inquiry and mandated it to investigate the tragedy. That commission has concluded its assignment and submitted its report. Mr. El-Rufai now faces a binary choice: To use the report as an instrument for the pursuit of justice or to consign it to the dump.

Too often in Nigeria, a commission of inquiry is a hollow response to an embarrassing man-made disaster. It is a near-reflex play staged for tokenism. A courteous first aid orchestrated for momentary optics, a fulfill-all-righteousness gesture that serves as a substitute for real therapeutic reckoning.

A commission of inquiry –in principle, an inquest that revisits a distasteful incident and facilitates a constructive catharsis and a teachable moment for the commune –is something else in this space. Here, it is a contraption of expediency. The handy apparatus the politician uses to de-escalate a crisis in his constituency, extinguish outrage and award himself pretext for inaction.
Even in situations where all the vital facts are common knowledge –as in Zaria where Nigerian soldiers waged an indefensible war on Nigerian civilians –the government prefers to feign ignorance and to insist that it needs a drawn-out farce to acquaint it with the open secrets.

The carnage of Zaria was executed in broad daylight. It did not require the verification or illumination of a 'commission of inquiry'. No dark mysteries shrouded the callous killing. Nigerian soldiers spread their killing spree over two days and two nights and they killed like audacious poachers in a game reserve!

Members of a minority muslim sect had mounted a blockade on the high way. They did so to avert the complication of managing the massive procession and normal vehicular traffic. They compelled other road users to make a detour.
The convoy of the Chief of Army Staff, Lt. General Tukur Yusuf Burutai, heading to a yonder address, bumped into the road block. There were pleas for right of way. The vanguard of the faithful, intoxicated by their own zeal and by the excitement of the carnival spirit, demurred. The soldiers warmed into a killing mood, engaged their guns and procured a bloody breakthrough.

But the soldiers were not content with the roadside shootings. They didn't count the number of the dead sufficient vengeance for the ‘insult’ on their General. They deployed to the shrine of the sect and multiplied the death toll. They shot innocents who could never have been involved in the blockade. They wasted women, children, the suckling.

They invaded the home of the leader of the sect, Ibrahim El-Zakzaky. They killed three of his sons and shot his wife 7 times. They shot El-Zakzaky four times on his legs, dragged him out of his house, stripped him of his clothes, and transported him on a wheel barrow.

Moments later, the soldiers realized they had killed too many human beings for the world not to notice. They started a desperate mop up of the corpses to erase the trace of crime against humanity. They broke into hospitals and morgues in the environs and evacuated the dying and the dead. They drove the bloodied bodies to a remote location, dug mass graves and did a cover up.

The killings on the road and the extra killing at the shrine and the mass burial were not secrets. Who did what is widely known. There are no known unknowns, no unknown unknowns. There was a massacre and there are identifiable culprits still circulating freely.

But officialdom flinched from calling the massacre by the proper name. They elected to style it Shiite-military 'clash'. The slaughterfest was euphemistically minimized because the consumed were 'Shiites'. They didn't belong to the Sunni mainstream. They were subhumans whose massive dispatch didn't qualify to be honoured as a massacre!

There was abundance of evidence to prompt swift prosecution. But El-Rufai chose to buy time through the rigmarole of a 'commission of inquiry'. He took the option on the calculation that the process of receiving thousands of memorandums and reading them, collecting exhibits and examining them, hearing eyewitness testimonies and determining the common fragments of resemblance among the honest-to-God narratives would take plenty of time. He was certain that early into the insufferably slow proceedings, a society with a very short attention span would mentally and emotionally abandon the boring academic reconstruction of the painful memory.

El-Rufai's initial response to the massacre was nearly as horrifying as the massacre itself. Hardly had the blood of the murdered congealed before he sided with the mass murderers and rationalized the killing. He went on TV and revictimized the victims, pronouncing them guilty of a failed attempt to assassinate Burutai.
El-Rufai would later double down and authorize the prosecution of 50 'Shiites' and instruct the state prosecutor to pray the court to hand down a guilty verdict and death penalty!

His establishment of the ‘commission of inquiry’ is a brazen act of hypocrisy. He had demonstrated all too clearly that he was pleased by the massacre and that he would have been happier if a total purge of the Shiites was achieved. He regards Shiites as non-humans. People whose lives were dispensable because they practice the ‘wrong’ version of Islam.

It is worthy to note, though, that while his ‘commission of inquiry’ was trying to strike pay dirt, Amnesty International, the leading human rights NGO in the world, published a rich description of the massacre. AI asserted that the Nigerian Army unprofessionally resorted to launching a full scale ‘military operation’ in a situation that would have been saved with prudence and law-and-order management.

AI noted that the Nigerian Army embarked on a campaign of arson, immolated people and shoved the victims into mass graves

It also dismissed as nonsense the putative rationale for the massacre. It said the Nigerian Army failed to substantiate the claim that there was an attempt on or threat to the life of the Chief of Army Staff. It further emphasized that the Nigerian Army took deliberate steps to destroy evidence of their crime: “Bodies were taken away, sites were razed to the ground, the rubble removed, bloodstains washed off, and bullets and spent cartridges removed from the streets.”

While receiving the report of his ‘commission of inquiry’, El-Rufai said that the Kaduna State government would study it before reaching a decision to publish or not. 

Columnist Jibrin Ibrahim, a prominent member of the commission, suggested that the report was marked TOP SECRET for the sake of peace; implying that members of the public –the decimated Nigerian Shiite community and the bereaved families inclusive –ought to be protected from the post mortem at all cost.

The classification was thought to be necessary. The report ostensibly contains the identity of the perpetrators of the massacre, the scope of their terrorist destruction and the complicity of some government institutions. Its release to the public would inevitably generate very strong reactions: It's better hidden like light under a bushel.

A Premium Times leak says the report blamed the Nigerian police for being remiss in their duty and indicted the General Officer Commanding the Nigerian Army 1st Division in Kaduna, Major General Adeniyi Oyebade, and Colonel A.K. Ibraheem, who led the 'operation'.
No word was invested on Burutai. No word on the General who smugly watched as soldiers in his convoy gunned down civilians so he can walk on a red carpet of fresh blood to an inconsequential passing out parade no one remembers now!

To be sure, the Islamic Movement of Nigeria did not participate fully in the proceedings of the commission. The organization didn’t have the instruction of El-Zakzaky to present its version of the massacre to the commission. The Department of State Security denied the organization’s lawyers meaningful engagement with him. The DSS says the man, now blind in one eye and paralyzed, was being held in ‘’protective custody’’ for his own good.

Nevertheless, the report, for what it is worth, should be made public. The 'commission of inquiry' was inaugurated to interrogate the massacre and to reflect all the dimensions of its actuality. No aspect of the truth of that massacre should be revised or abridged or withheld in the name of ‘security reasons’. Nobody who is culpable should enjoy disguised immunity.

Instead of subjecting the report to editorial sanitation, there should be full disclosure. The report should be released in its pristine form. Kaduna people and all Nigerians should know why Nigerian soldiers who are paid and equipped by Nigerian taxpayers wasted 347 Nigerian civilians …like a trigger-happy death cult!

Nigerian Shiites are held in contempt by their Sunni brethren. Even President Muhammadu Buhari, the leader who made that I Belong To Everybody and I Belong To Nobody speech, could not restrain himself from betraying his disdain for the Shiites. Against all sense, he said on national TV that the Shiites deserved the massacre. They irritated uniformed men invested with the power of life and death. They were ''virtually hitting the chest of Generals''.

Virtually!

The 'Shiite' label seems to bespeak a grade of inferiority. It need not be. Religious persuasion does not diminish the personhood of a human being. 

Those people who were shot dead and burnt alive were human beings. They had a right to life. Their group murder should be legally punished as such.

El-Rufai prosecuted 50 Shiites for allegedly killing a soldier in ‘the clash’. He should be fair enough to prosecute the soldiers who wasted 347 Shiites. A soldier's life is not more equal than a 'Shiite' life.
No sane society excuses or abides the devaluation of the lives of its citizens. Nigeria should not be a prehistoric cannibal jungle that does.

Extrajudicial killings impoverish the community in human beings and in human feeling. No case of extrajudicial killing should be ignored or explained away. Every extrajudicial killing should be redressed. A nation that permits the gratuitous killing of its own people has made a self-fulfilling prophecy of its own extinction.
El-Rufai must rise above his Sunni chauvinism. He should publish the report of the Zaria massacre and cause his Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice to prosecute the indictees. Anything less would be killing the massacre!
 
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http://saharareporters.com/2016/07/23/el-rufai-dont-kill-zaria-massacre-emmanuel-ugwu

Nigeria awaits Buhari, el-Rufai over Zaria Shiite panel report
by Idowu Akinlotan, July 24, 2016 at 12:01 am in Idowu Akinlotan

RESPONDING to criticisms over their handling of last December’s Shiite disturbance in Zaria during which hundreds of lives were lost, both President Muhammadu Buhari and Kaduna State governor, Nasir el-Rufai, appealed to Nigerians to wait for the outcome of the judicial probe of the crisis. Despite the urgency of the matter and the unquantifiable pains the disturbance inflicted on hundreds of families, interested parties managed to exercise the requisite patience. Finally, and even though the report has not been officially released, the media have published glimpses of the conclusions and indictments contained in the report. Headed by Justice Mohammed Garba of the Federal Court of Appeal, Port Harcourt, the 13-man panel confirmed 349 dead, probably all Shiite members.... The panel indicted the General Officer Commanding Nigerian Army Ist Division, Kaduna, Oyeniyi Oyebade, a major-general, and a certain A.K. Ibraheem, a colonel, for mishandling the crisis and using disproportionate force.
According to witnesses, some of them government officials, victims of the massacre were buried in two mass graves, with some of the corpses conveyed in military trucks. Yet, the army said it counted only seven people killed. The public will now wait for government’s response to the very damning report, the first coming from Kaduna State government, the second from the army, and the third from the federal government. Given the way they initially approached the crisis, all three will be uncomfortable in responding to the obvious crimes against humanity committed by the soldiers. The army, it was clear, used excessive force when, according to the panel, it could have chosen alternative routes for their commanders to pass through Zaria. Until the report is released officially, it is not certain what the panel found out concerning the army’s theory that Shiite members planned to assassinate the Chief of Army Staff (COAS), Lt.-Gen. Tukur Buratai.

The second responder, Kaduna State government, also mishandled the crisis abysmally by prejudging the Shiites and demolishing their headquarters after the massacre. The religious group did not have building permits, the governor had said. Then finally, the Buhari presidency, basing its conclusions on unstated intelligence or findings, condemned the Shiites for attempting to set up a government within a government. There can be only one government, the president bristled during a media chat shortly after the disturbance.

Commentators had noted immediately after the clash and the attendant massacre that the army’s disproportionate response and the state and federal governments’ connivance were fuelled by their hubristic interpretation of the powers of government and their inchoate appreciation of the fundamentals of democracy and the power of the ballot paper.
It now remains to be seen how both Mallam el-Rufai and President Buhari, in that order, will respond to the panel’s report. The judicial probe has called for the prosecution of the two named officers and other senior officers who participated in the massacre. Though the panel also blamed the government for its lack of proactive response to malfeasant and troublesome groups, including the often obtruding and disruptive Shiites, the main quandary the government will face will be how to disengage the officers and prosecute them. Much worse, the Kaduna State governor himself condoned the killings by his insensitive statements shortly after the clash and then took steps to, as it were, erase the presence of the Shiites in their Zaria redoubt. The president and the governor will obviously find out soon that the loathing they claimed the neighbours of Shiites in Zaria harbour against the religious group has no evidential value in mitigating the atrocities committed against its members. They will also discover that mass burial and the lack of records of victims constitute obstruction of justice.

It will not be enough for the Kaduna State government to release a White Paper on the crisis. The governor must come to terms with his comments and attitude over the clash. He will need to show remorse and offer a full apology. Next, the president himself must show remorse for the very biased and casual manner he dismissed the clash and prejudged the Shiites. He needs to issue a full apology as well. Then they must go on to make full amends for the oppressive and atrocious manner they have treated the leader of the movement, El-Zakzaky, whom the Department of State Service has detained unlawfully for many months. If they are smart, they must open talks with the Shi’a Movement and discuss compensation. Otherwise, armed with the report, whenever it is issued, the Shiites will exact a terrible price from the government. And if the government decides unwisely to bury or distort the report, the International Criminal Court (ICC) will be petitioned to retrieve the report and call the government, including those not indicted by the panel, to account. The federal and state governments, and the army are in unwinnable positions. The sooner they realise it, the better.

http://thenationonlineng.net/nigeria-awaits-buhari-el-rufai-zaria-shiite-panel-report/

El-Rufai, Don't Kill The Zaria Massacre! By Emmanuel Ugwu

Sahara Reporters

In the wake of the massacre of hundreds of Nigerians in Zaria by the Nigerian Army, Kaduna state governor, Nasir El-Rufai, empanelled a judicial commission of inquiry and mandated it to investigate the tragedy. That commission has concluded its assignment and submitted its report. Mr. El-Rufai now faces a binary choice: To use the report as an instrument for the pursuit of justice or to consign it to the dump.

BY EMMANUEL UCHENNA UGWU
JUL 23, 2016

In the wake of the massacre of hundreds of Nigerians in Zaria by the Nigerian Army, Kaduna state governor, Nasir El-Rufai, empanelled a judicial commission of inquiry and mandated it to investigate the tragedy. That commission has concluded its assignment and submitted its report. Mr. El-Rufai now faces a binary choice: To use the report as an instrument for the pursuit of justice or to consign it to the dump.

Too often in Nigeria, a commission of inquiry is a hollow response to an embarrassing man-made disaster. It is a near-reflex play staged for tokenism. A courteous first aid orchestrated for momentary optics, a fulfill-all-righteousness gesture that serves as a substitute for real therapeutic reckoning.

A commission of inquiry –in principle, an inquest that revisits a distasteful incident and facilitates a constructive catharsis and a teachable moment for the commune –is something else in this space. Here, it is a contraption of expediency. The handy apparatus the politician uses to de-escalate a crisis in his constituency, extinguish outrage and award himself pretext for inaction.
Even in situations where all the vital facts are common knowledge –as in Zaria where Nigerian soldiers waged an indefensible war on Nigerian civilians –the government prefers to feign ignorance and to insist that it needs a drawn-out farce to acquaint it with the open secrets.

The carnage of Zaria was executed in broad daylight. It did not require the verification or illumination of a 'commission of inquiry'. No dark mysteries shrouded the callous killing. Nigerian soldiers spread their killing spree over two days and two nights and they killed like audacious poachers in a game reserve!

Members of a minority muslim sect had mounted a blockade on the high way. They did so to avert the complication of managing the massive procession and normal vehicular traffic. They compelled other road users to make a detour.
The convoy of the Chief of Army Staff, Lt. General Tukur Yusuf Burutai, heading to a yonder address, bumped into the road block. There were pleas for right of way. The vanguard of the faithful, intoxicated by their own zeal and by the excitement of the carnival spirit, demurred. The soldiers warmed into a killing mood, engaged their guns and procured a bloody breakthrough.

But the soldiers were not content with the roadside shootings. They didn't count the number of the dead sufficient vengeance for the ‘insult’ on their General. They deployed to the shrine of the sect and multiplied the death toll. They shot innocents who could never have been involved in the blockade. They wasted women, children, the suckling.

They invaded the home of the leader of the sect, Ibrahim El-Zakzaky. They killed three of his sons and shot his wife 7 times. They shot El-Zakzaky four times on his legs, dragged him out of his house, stripped him of his clothes, and transported him on a wheel barrow.

Moments later, the soldiers realized they had killed too many human beings for the world not to notice. They started a desperate mop up of the corpses to erase the trace of crime against humanity. They broke into hospitals and morgues in the environs and evacuated the dying and the dead. They drove the bloodied bodies to a remote location, dug mass graves and did a cover up.

The killings on the road and the extra killing at the shrine and the mass burial were not secrets. Who did what is widely known. There are no known unknowns, no unknown unknowns. There was a massacre and there are identifiable culprits still circulating freely.

But officialdom flinched from calling the massacre by the proper name. They elected to style it Shiite-military 'clash'. The slaughterfest was euphemistically minimized because the consumed were 'Shiites'. They didn't belong to the Sunni mainstream. They were subhumans whose massive dispatch didn't qualify to be honoured as a massacre!

There was abundance of evidence to prompt swift prosecution. But El-Rufai chose to buy time through the rigmarole of a 'commission of inquiry'. He took the option on the calculation that the process of receiving thousands of memorandums and reading them, collecting exhibits and examining them, hearing eyewitness testimonies and determining the common fragments of resemblance among the honest-to-God narratives would take plenty of time. He was certain that early into the insufferably slow proceedings, a society with a very short attention span would mentally and emotionally abandon the boring academic reconstruction of the painful memory.

El-Rufai's initial response to the massacre was nearly as horrifying as the massacre itself. Hardly had the blood of the murdered congealed before he sided with the mass murderers and rationalized the killing. He went on TV and revictimized the victims, pronouncing them guilty of a failed attempt to assassinate Burutai.
El-Rufai would later double down and authorize the prosecution of 50 'Shiites' and instruct the state prosecutor to pray the court to hand down a guilty verdict and death penalty!

His establishment of the ‘commission of inquiry’ is a brazen act of hypocrisy. He had demonstrated all too clearly that he was pleased by the massacre and that he would have been happier if a total purge of the Shiites was achieved. He regards Shiites as non-humans. People whose lives were dispensable because they practice the ‘wrong’ version of Islam.

It is worthy to note, though, that while his ‘commission of inquiry’ was trying to strike pay dirt, Amnesty International, the leading human rights NGO in the world, published a rich description of the massacre. AI asserted that the Nigerian Army unprofessionally resorted to launching a full scale ‘military operation’ in a situation that would have been saved with prudence and law-and-order management.

AI noted that the Nigerian Army embarked on a campaign of arson, immolated people and shoved the victims into mass graves

It also dismissed as nonsense the putative rationale for the massacre. It said the Nigerian Army failed to substantiate the claim that there was an attempt on or threat to the life of the Chief of Army Staff. It further emphasized that the Nigerian Army took deliberate steps to destroy evidence of their crime: “Bodies were taken away, sites were razed to the ground, the rubble removed, bloodstains washed off, and bullets and spent cartridges removed from the streets.”

While receiving the report of his ‘commission of inquiry’, El-Rufai said that the Kaduna State government would study it before reaching a decision to publish or not. 

Columnist Jibrin Ibrahim, a prominent member of the commission, suggested that the report was marked TOP SECRET for the sake of peace; implying that members of the public –the decimated Nigerian Shiite community and the bereaved families inclusive –ought to be protected from the post mortem at all cost.

The classification was thought to be necessary. The report ostensibly contains the identity of the perpetrators of the massacre, the scope of their terrorist destruction and the complicity of some government institutions. Its release to the public would inevitably generate very strong reactions: It's better hidden like light under a bushel.

A Premium Times leak says the report blamed the Nigerian police for being remiss in their duty and indicted the General Officer Commanding the Nigerian Army 1st Division in Kaduna, Major General Adeniyi Oyebade, and Colonel A.K. Ibraheem, who led the 'operation'.
No word was invested on Burutai. No word on the General who smugly watched as soldiers in his convoy gunned down civilians so he can walk on a red carpet of fresh blood to an inconsequential passing out parade no one remembers now!

To be sure, the Islamic Movement of Nigeria did not participate fully in the proceedings of the commission. The organization didn’t have the instruction of El-Zakzaky to present its version of the massacre to the commission. The Department of State Security denied the organization’s lawyers meaningful engagement with him. The DSS says the man, now blind in one eye and paralyzed, was being held in ‘’protective custody’’ for his own good.

Nevertheless, the report, for what it is worth, should be made public. The 'commission of inquiry' was inaugurated to interrogate the massacre and to reflect all the dimensions of its actuality. No aspect of the truth of that massacre should be revised or abridged or withheld in the name of ‘security reasons’. Nobody who is culpable should enjoy disguised immunity.

Instead of subjecting the report to editorial sanitation, there should be full disclosure. The report should be released in its pristine form. Kaduna people and all Nigerians should know why Nigerian soldiers who are paid and equipped by Nigerian taxpayers wasted 347 Nigerian civilians …like a trigger-happy death cult!

Nigerian Shiites are held in contempt by their Sunni brethren. Even President Muhammadu Buhari, the leader who made that I Belong To Everybody and I Belong To Nobody speech, could not restrain himself from betraying his disdain for the Shiites. Against all sense, he said on national TV that the Shiites deserved the massacre. They irritated uniformed men invested with the power of life and death. They were ''virtually hitting the chest of Generals''.

Virtually!

The 'Shiite' label seems to bespeak a grade of inferiority. It need not be. Religious persuasion does not diminish the personhood of a human being. 

Those people who were shot dead and burnt alive were human beings. They had a right to life. Their group murder should be legally punished as such.

El-Rufai prosecuted 50 Shiites for allegedly killing a soldier in ‘the clash’. He should be fair enough to prosecute the soldiers who wasted 347 Shiites. A soldier's life is not more equal than a 'Shiite' life.
No sane society excuses or abides the devaluation of the lives of its citizens. Nigeria should not be a prehistoric cannibal jungle that does.

Extrajudicial killings impoverish the community in human beings and in human feeling. No case of extrajudicial killing should be ignored or explained away. Every extrajudicial killing should be redressed. A nation that permits the gratuitous killing of its own people has made a self-fulfilling prophecy of its own extinction.
El-Rufai must rise above his Sunni chauvinism. He should publish the report of the Zaria massacre and cause his Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice to prosecute the indictees. Anything less would be killing the massacre!
 
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@EmmaUgwuTheMan

http://saharareporters.com/2016/07/23/el-rufai-dont-kill-zaria-massacre-emmanuel-ugwu

El-Rufai, Don't Kill The Zaria Massacre! By Emmanuel Ugwu

Sahara Reporters

In the wake of the massacre of hundreds of Nigerians in Zaria by the Nigerian Army, Kaduna state governor, Nasir El-Rufai, empanelled a judicial commission of inquiry and mandated it to investigate the tragedy. That commission has concluded its assignment and submitted its report. Mr. El-Rufai now faces a binary choice: To use the report as an instrument for the pursuit of justice or to consign it to the dump.

BY EMMANUEL UCHENNA UGWU
JUL 23, 2016

In the wake of the massacre of hundreds of Nigerians in Zaria by the Nigerian Army, Kaduna state governor, Nasir El-Rufai, empanelled a judicial commission of inquiry and mandated it to investigate the tragedy. That commission has concluded its assignment and submitted its report. Mr. El-Rufai now faces a binary choice: To use the report as an instrument for the pursuit of justice or to consign it to the dump.

Too often in Nigeria, a commission of inquiry is a hollow response to an embarrassing man-made disaster. It is a near-reflex play staged for tokenism. A courteous first aid orchestrated for momentary optics, a fulfill-all-righteousness gesture that serves as a substitute for real therapeutic reckoning.

A commission of inquiry –in principle, an inquest that revisits a distasteful incident and facilitates a constructive catharsis and a teachable moment for the commune –is something else in this space. Here, it is a contraption of expediency. The handy apparatus the politician uses to de-escalate a crisis in his constituency, extinguish outrage and award himself pretext for inaction.
Even in situations where all the vital facts are common knowledge –as in Zaria where Nigerian soldiers waged an indefensible war on Nigerian civilians –the government prefers to feign ignorance and to insist that it needs a drawn-out farce to acquaint it with the open secrets.

The carnage of Zaria was executed in broad daylight. It did not require the verification or illumination of a 'commission of inquiry'. No dark mysteries shrouded the callous killing. Nigerian soldiers spread their killing spree over two days and two nights and they killed like audacious poachers in a game reserve!

Members of a minority muslim sect had mounted a blockade on the high way. They did so to avert the complication of managing the massive procession and normal vehicular traffic. They compelled other road users to make a detour.
The convoy of the Chief of Army Staff, Lt. General Tukur Yusuf Burutai, heading to a yonder address, bumped into the road block. There were pleas for right of way. The vanguard of the faithful, intoxicated by their own zeal and by the excitement of the carnival spirit, demurred. The soldiers warmed into a killing mood, engaged their guns and procured a bloody breakthrough.

But the soldiers were not content with the roadside shootings. They didn't count the number of the dead sufficient vengeance for the ‘insult’ on their General. They deployed to the shrine of the sect and multiplied the death toll. They shot innocents who could never have been involved in the blockade. They wasted women, children, the suckling.

They invaded the home of the leader of the sect, Ibrahim El-Zakzaky. They killed three of his sons and shot his wife 7 times. They shot El-Zakzaky four times on his legs, dragged him out of his house, stripped him of his clothes, and transported him on a wheel barrow.

Moments later, the soldiers realized they had killed too many human beings for the world not to notice. They started a desperate mop up of the corpses to erase the trace of crime against humanity. They broke into hospitals and morgues in the environs and evacuated the dying and the dead. They drove the bloodied bodies to a remote location, dug mass graves and did a cover up.

The killings on the road and the extra killing at the shrine and the mass burial were not secrets. Who did what is widely known. There are no known unknowns, no unknown unknowns. There was a massacre and there are identifiable culprits still circulating freely.

But officialdom flinched from calling the massacre by the proper name. They elected to style it Shiite-military 'clash'. The slaughterfest was euphemistically minimized because the consumed were 'Shiites'. They didn't belong to the Sunni mainstream. They were subhumans whose massive dispatch didn't qualify to be honoured as a massacre!

There was abundance of evidence to prompt swift prosecution. But El-Rufai chose to buy time through the rigmarole of a 'commission of inquiry'. He took the option on the calculation that the process of receiving thousands of memorandums and reading them, collecting exhibits and examining them, hearing eyewitness testimonies and determining the common fragments of resemblance among the honest-to-God narratives would take plenty of time. He was certain that early into the insufferably slow proceedings, a society with a very short attention span would mentally and emotionally abandon the boring academic reconstruction of the painful memory.

El-Rufai's initial response to the massacre was nearly as horrifying as the massacre itself. Hardly had the blood of the murdered congealed before he sided with the mass murderers and rationalized the killing. He went on TV and revictimized the victims, pronouncing them guilty of a failed attempt to assassinate Burutai.
El-Rufai would later double down and authorize the prosecution of 50 'Shiites' and instruct the state prosecutor to pray the court to hand down a guilty verdict and death penalty!

His establishment of the ‘commission of inquiry’ is a brazen act of hypocrisy. He had demonstrated all too clearly that he was pleased by the massacre and that he would have been happier if a total purge of the Shiites was achieved. He regards Shiites as non-humans. People whose lives were dispensable because they practice the ‘wrong’ version of Islam.

It is worthy to note, though, that while his ‘commission of inquiry’ was trying to strike pay dirt, Amnesty International, the leading human rights NGO in the world, published a rich description of the massacre. AI asserted that the Nigerian Army unprofessionally resorted to launching a full scale ‘military operation’ in a situation that would have been saved with prudence and law-and-order management.

AI noted that the Nigerian Army embarked on a campaign of arson, immolated people and shoved the victims into mass graves

It also dismissed as nonsense the putative rationale for the massacre. It said the Nigerian Army failed to substantiate the claim that there was an attempt on or threat to the life of the Chief of Army Staff. It further emphasized that the Nigerian Army took deliberate steps to destroy evidence of their crime: “Bodies were taken away, sites were razed to the ground, the rubble removed, bloodstains washed off, and bullets and spent cartridges removed from the streets.”

While receiving the report of his ‘commission of inquiry’, El-Rufai said that the Kaduna State government would study it before reaching a decision to publish or not. 

Columnist Jibrin Ibrahim, a prominent member of the commission, suggested that the report was marked TOP SECRET for the sake of peace; implying that members of the public –the decimated Nigerian Shiite community and the bereaved families inclusive –ought to be protected from the post mortem at all cost.

The classification was thought to be necessary. The report ostensibly contains the identity of the perpetrators of the massacre, the scope of their terrorist destruction and the complicity of some government institutions. Its release to the public would inevitably generate very strong reactions: It's better hidden like light under a bushel.

A Premium Times leak says the report blamed the Nigerian police for being remiss in their duty and indicted the General Officer Commanding the Nigerian Army 1st Division in Kaduna, Major General Adeniyi Oyebade, and Colonel A.K. Ibraheem, who led the 'operation'.
No word was invested on Burutai. No word on the General who smugly watched as soldiers in his convoy gunned down civilians so he can walk on a red carpet of fresh blood to an inconsequential passing out parade no one remembers now!

To be sure, the Islamic Movement of Nigeria did not participate fully in the proceedings of the commission. The organization didn’t have the instruction of El-Zakzaky to present its version of the massacre to the commission. The Department of State Security denied the organization’s lawyers meaningful engagement with him. The DSS says the man, now blind in one eye and paralyzed, was being held in ‘’protective custody’’ for his own good.

Nevertheless, the report, for what it is worth, should be made public. The 'commission of inquiry' was inaugurated to interrogate the massacre and to reflect all the dimensions of its actuality. No aspect of the truth of that massacre should be revised or abridged or withheld in the name of ‘security reasons’. Nobody who is culpable should enjoy disguised immunity.

Instead of subjecting the report to editorial sanitation, there should be full disclosure. The report should be released in its pristine form. Kaduna people and all Nigerians should know why Nigerian soldiers who are paid and equipped by Nigerian taxpayers wasted 347 Nigerian civilians …like a trigger-happy death cult!

Nigerian Shiites are held in contempt by their Sunni brethren. Even President Muhammadu Buhari, the leader who made that I Belong To Everybody and I Belong To Nobody speech, could not restrain himself from betraying his disdain for the Shiites. Against all sense, he said on national TV that the Shiites deserved the massacre. They irritated uniformed men invested with the power of life and death. They were ''virtually hitting the chest of Generals''.

Virtually!

The 'Shiite' label seems to bespeak a grade of inferiority. It need not be. Religious persuasion does not diminish the personhood of a human being. 

Those people who were shot dead and burnt alive were human beings. They had a right to life. Their group murder should be legally punished as such.

El-Rufai prosecuted 50 Shiites for allegedly killing a soldier in ‘the clash’. He should be fair enough to prosecute the soldiers who wasted 347 Shiites. A soldier's life is not more equal than a 'Shiite' life.
No sane society excuses or abides the devaluation of the lives of its citizens. Nigeria should not be a prehistoric cannibal jungle that does.

Extrajudicial killings impoverish the community in human beings and in human feeling. No case of extrajudicial killing should be ignored or explained away. Every extrajudicial killing should be redressed. A nation that permits the gratuitous killing of its own people has made a self-fulfilling prophecy of its own extinction.
El-Rufai must rise above his Sunni chauvinism. He should publish the report of the Zaria massacre and cause his Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice to prosecute the indictees. Anything less would be killing the massacre!
 
immaugwu@gmail.com
@EmmaUgwuTheMan

http://saharareporters.com/2016/07/23/el-rufai-dont-kill-zaria-massacre-emmanuel-ugwu

Nigeria awaits Buhari, el-Rufai over Zaria Shiite panel report
by Idowu Akinlotan, July 24, 2016 at 12:01 am in Idowu Akinlotan

RESPONDING to criticisms over their handling of last December’s Shiite disturbance in Zaria during which hundreds of lives were lost, both President Muhammadu Buhari and Kaduna State governor, Nasir el-Rufai, appealed to Nigerians to wait for the outcome of the judicial probe of the crisis. Despite the urgency of the matter and the unquantifiable pains the disturbance inflicted on hundreds of families, interested parties managed to exercise the requisite patience. Finally, and even though the report has not been officially released, the media have published glimpses of the conclusions and indictments contained in the report. Headed by Justice Mohammed Garba of the Federal Court of Appeal, Port Harcourt, the 13-man panel confirmed 349 dead, probably all Shiite members.... The panel indicted the General Officer Commanding Nigerian Army Ist Division, Kaduna, Oyeniyi Oyebade, a major-general, and a certain A.K. Ibraheem, a colonel, for mishandling the crisis and using disproportionate force.
According to witnesses, some of them government officials, victims of the massacre were buried in two mass graves, with some of the corpses conveyed in military trucks. Yet, the army said it counted only seven people killed. The public will now wait for government’s response to the very damning report, the first coming from Kaduna State government, the second from the army, and the third from the federal government. Given the way they initially approached the crisis, all three will be uncomfortable in responding to the obvious crimes against humanity committed by the soldiers. The army, it was clear, used excessive force when, according to the panel, it could have chosen alternative routes for their commanders to pass through Zaria. Until the report is released officially, it is not certain what the panel found out concerning the army’s theory that Shiite members planned to assassinate the Chief of Army Staff (COAS), Lt.-Gen. Tukur Buratai.

The second responder, Kaduna State government, also mishandled the crisis abysmally by prejudging the Shiites and demolishing their headquarters after the massacre. The religious group did not have building permits, the governor had said. Then finally, the Buhari presidency, basing its conclusions on unstated intelligence or findings, condemned the Shiites for attempting to set up a government within a government. There can be only one government, the president bristled during a media chat shortly after the disturbance.

Commentators had noted immediately after the clash and the attendant massacre that the army’s disproportionate response and the state and federal governments’ connivance were fuelled by their hubristic interpretation of the powers of government and their inchoate appreciation of the fundamentals of democracy and the power of the ballot paper.
It now remains to be seen how both Mallam el-Rufai and President Buhari, in that order, will respond to the panel’s report. The judicial probe has called for the prosecution of the two named officers and other senior officers who participated in the massacre. Though the panel also blamed the government for its lack of proactive response to malfeasant and troublesome groups, including the often obtruding and disruptive Shiites, the main quandary the government will face will be how to disengage the officers and prosecute them. Much worse, the Kaduna State governor himself condoned the killings by his insensitive statements shortly after the clash and then took steps to, as it were, erase the presence of the Shiites in their Zaria redoubt. The president and the governor will obviously find out soon that the loathing they claimed the neighbours of Shiites in Zaria harbour against the religious group has no evidential value in mitigating the atrocities committed against its members. They will also discover that mass burial and the lack of records of victims constitute obstruction of justice.

It will not be enough for the Kaduna State government to release a White Paper on the crisis. The governor must come to terms with his comments and attitude over the clash. He will need to show remorse and offer a full apology. Next, the president himself must show remorse for the very biased and casual manner he dismissed the clash and prejudged the Shiites. He needs to issue a full apology as well. Then they must go on to make full amends for the oppressive and atrocious manner they have treated the leader of the movement, El-Zakzaky, whom the Department of State Service has detained unlawfully for many months. If they are smart, they must open talks with the Shi’a Movement and discuss compensation. Otherwise, armed with the report, whenever it is issued, the Shiites will exact a terrible price from the government. And if the government decides unwisely to bury or distort the report, the International Criminal Court (ICC) will be petitioned to retrieve the report and call the government, including those not indicted by the panel, to account. The federal and state governments, and the army are in unwinnable positions. The sooner they realise it, the better.

http://thenationonlineng.net/nigeria-awaits-buhari-el-rufai-zaria-shiite-panel-report/

#FreeZakzaky

AnusOdourInhaler:

First of all, provide credible information about those who killed a man in Kaduna are Sunni or you're a cretinous fucktarddd..
That being said, the Sunni are the majority in Nigeria, so they dictate what happen, they were been dictating before Mutu'a people showed their ugly faces.. Nigeria, or should I say, Northern Nigeria is a sunni state/region, as you hate to admit, because, before the 80s, non of the shytes is here .. So your coming doesn't change a thang.. Obey constituted authority, or be dealt with...
There's nothing like sectarian hate or prejudice, as far as we're concerned, shytes are terrorist, they are not part of the religion they claimed to be.. So you're just treated as a terrorist that you are!
We pamper militants because of Nigeria oil wealth, nobody is stealing anything from anybody, this is how the system was setup even before you started having contract marriage in Nigeria.
Stop attacking my person, is a dickk move, my lifestyle or anything I do is none of your business, focus your energy on sleepin with different women under the pretends of Mutu'a, abusing the prophet's wives and his companions.
The army became law enforcement officers when some rag-tag terrorist were feeling fly, blocking the COAS passage. The chief was even begging them, but they refused to clear the road.. Next time, try it again!
Save Buhari's ass? You must be kidding me, just try it again and see if his ass was saved the other time..
I think you are the one that needs to keep the flame burning in your heart, you need it for your evil intention against Nigeria.. Just because you're Paid to post here doesn't mean everybody is like you, why are you having such feelings in the first place, guilty?
You can continue to spread falsehood as well, but your evil plan against Nigeria will be resisted.. Iran slave!
Just drag Buhari, Buratai and Nasir to ICC already, stop making noise, but wait! You shytes run your parallel government here is Nigeria, so I see no reason to blame unrecognized government running the country..
You don't act like a fool by blocking the passage of COAS of the federal Republic of Nigeria, and even refused to understand things with them..
Nigeria is secular state, cool, but any terrorist group that does not respect the constituted authority that made Nigeria a secular state, and even provided him the right to religion will be dealt with, the shytes wants to overthrow the same set of documents that gave them right, so that they can enforce their shittyy religion on us... We are watching!
Tell that to Houthis terrorist too, they cannot bring back Yemen before it's a republic.. Just see yourself, you're just contradicting yourself..
There are more millions non shytes in Nigeria as well, so just shut it, you're not special..

Since majority as you say are Sunni, if you cannot establish the Shia have killed anyone, and surely you cannot claim or prove that, it only occurs to reason that your people are the ones. In fact all the riots, killings and destruction. Even non-Muslims in this very thread are witnesses and testifying to that. These terror acts are what pushed and influenced many of us to look to Shia Islam and leave Sunnism. Your people have soiled the name of Muslims.

Going by your reasoning, Nigeria was a land where everyone practiced traditional religion. Let us go back to that era since it's the identity of our forefathers. You are acting like the pagans of Mecca. When the Prophet started preaching in Mecca, were the majority of Arabs not idol worshipers? So going by your stupidity, the idol worshipers were right in persecuting the Prophet and his few followers because the idol worshipers dictate what happens, and who worship what and where. Your forefathers brought Sunni religion to Nigeria with the sword and bloodshed and you want to enforce and preserve it through the sword and bloodshed. Terrorist religion! We do not want to be Sunni anymore. No going back to the path of tyrants and bloodshed. We are Hausa, Fulani, ibira, Yoruba, etc. we are Nigerians and we can choose what we worship and how. most of the Shia are not Zakzaky followers. If before 1980 there were no Shia and today after 40 years there are estimates of 5 to 25 million Shia in Nigeria, it shows why you are alarmed. That is the difference between us. We did not use any terror or violent methods to spread our beliefs while you are all about violence and terror. So if you imagine your bloodshed meted on Zakzaky will turn people away from their faith, your imagination is wrong. Not even the tragedy of Karbala stopes Shia Islam.

We do not disobey constituted authorities. We always want to seek police permit for our religious processions. To express our beliefs is a constitutional right. It is your constituted authorities who are rubbishing the constitution by denying us what the constitution has guaranteed to every Nigerian. When we seek police permit, you turn us down because Sunni clerics do not like us having freedom to preach and hold processions. We still go on and hold our processions. Your army and police provoke us into confrontation and they kill us for blocking road and you justify that. We will continue to hold our processions, police permit or not. In fact we are the ones protecting the constitution because it guarantees our rights that the police are denying us. We have human rights. If the constitution guarantees certain rights it must be obeyed. And if majority of Nigerians or Sunnis do not want what is in the constitution, then change it. Make Nigeria a Sunni Islamic republic. The constitution is not divine. Change it that Shia do not have right to freedom of religion because you are majority. People have the right to change constitutions, to self determination etc. but your own obedience to the constitution, while in fact you are the ones disobeying the constitution, is to promote and maintain tyranny and take away the rights of others.

We voted for your Buhari. Also el rufai. El rufai visited Zakzaky in January 2015 just before the election. Now you tell us we are outlaws. We committed a mistake to vote for tyrants who fooled us.

The police have no choice but to give us permit when we have our religious ceremonies to hold processions. We will continue to hold our processions whether Wahhabi clerics like it or not. You are free to keep shooting at us. We do not want to be Sunni and we do not follow tyrants and perverts even if you call them wife of prophet or companion. We will be steadfast and Allah will make sure the truth triumphs over falsehood and tyranny.

I hope everyone can clearly see that Tyrant Buhari is leading a sectarian government based on his Sunni fanatical beliefs of bloodshed. And everyone can see that the road block was only used as excuse to unleash terror on the Shia and kill them at four other locations. Killing innocent people that had nothing to do with any road block away from the scene of the road block incident. It is religious persecution and oppression and nothing more. And with our steadfastness and will to be free and continue to practice our beliefs we will keep holding processions. No one can stop us. Not even bullets and death. Only under Buhari and Buratai will road block justify the killing of hundreds.

AnusOdourInhaler:


At least the Niger Delta avengers are on top of valuable resources that is controlling the the nation's economic activity, so we pampered them, moreover, the are not planning revolution like some group of terrorist! The president avoided collateral damage. The terrorists that blocked the road are good for nothing, so their stupid activities were dealt with accordingly..
Continue beating your rusty chest, we are not afraid of anybody, when you're ready, just bring it on.. No long talk..
Whether I'm illiterate or not is none of your business.. Your business is to continue sleeping with different women under contract marriage term..

May your end be good.

Edit : Stop talking like the shytes are peaceful group, I knew a lot of them and even live among them.. Mr man, you people are violent, you're are just contained, that's why you laid low... "When will Zazakky occupy Nigeria? ", "The Nigerian army are nothing but cowards, we'll deal with them when the time of revolution comes ", Terroristic driven songs like" Yen bura ku dokamin, nayi yabon walliyillah ". Zaria terroristic attack is still fresh in our memories, where they were contained by helicopter, and Sokoto incident as well... Just shut it, be a law abiding citizen and live in peace, rebel the government and be dealt with, is that Easy.?

Until you can provide a credible source that IMN members have killed anyone, you're a twisted liar. None is more violent than Sunnis. But because they are majority, they must dictate as you said. Nigeria is not a Sunni state. And none would wish for that. Likewise their dictation to Christians. Your claim that Shia are violent is based on your prejudice and sectarian perception and being a perverted Sunni. I wonder how can a Sunni point finger that Shia are violent. Unbelievable!!! No conscience and no shame indeed. And if you're Christian, you must apparently be a loyal Sunni slave. You said you pamper militants because of their oil wealth. So you're implicitly admitting of stealing their resources and giving credence to their claims and demands. You support and justify oppression and injustice. Look at your perverted username. Are you a sane person? When has an army become a law enforcement body and I'm a supposed democratic dispensation.

You can argue all you want. The kangaroo commission set up by el rufai has indicted a Yoruba army general for the Zaria massacre. According to the judicial commission of inquiry, general adeniyi oyebade did not follow chain of command and acted on his own. You are here justifying bloodshed against innocent people in their hundreds, while your army has given up on a rogue general; or rather a scapegoat to save buhari's and Buratai's a**. There is no escape from justice. Keep the sectarian flame of ignorance burning in your heart. It won't make difference. You can get paid for misleading people on nairaland and using different usernames to post rubbish. You can't stop humanity and you cannot hide the truth from sane people. They will decipher the truth from falsehood.

You can make all the claims you like. The fact remains that massacre has been committed. Buratai and Buhari must go to the ICC at The Hague.

You do not act like wild beasts because your road was blocked. Nothing justifies killing hundreds at four different locations, away from the road incident where protesters were already killed.

Nigeria is a secular state. People have right to freely worship. You can't go back to before the 80s. You can't expunge beliefs from people's minds. What they believe is in their heart and there are millions of Shia in Nigeria , including those who do not belong to Zakzaky's IMN. You do not as a terrorist government when a citizen is not law abiding assuming your claims are correct.

You should continue inhaling what you like. Your thinking is perverted. Terrorists vindicator.

AnusOdourInhaler:

We don't want Iran in proxy with shytes to control our country.. The majority Sunni don't force their believes on the shytes, so the shytes should respect the authority, if not, they will be dealt with decisively...
The shytes would have done worst, but they are on the radar, so their evil intention against the country is checked...
Where were you went the shytes murdered a woman in ABU then because is came out naked? Mr man, you people are terrible...
Before 80s, do we have shytes in Nigeria? So, we are trying to bring back Nigeria before shytes sponsored by Iran came...
The shytes came as 'brothers' group because they knew nobody will accept them then, but when they got stupid people as followers, they opened up..

You have the Niger delta avengers, why have you not dealt with them? They prevented your president visiting port harcourt. He cowardly cancelled his trip. They did not only block his road (like it was done to Buratai and he used it as excuse to massacre unarmed Nigerians), but they blocked his airspace and also road. He cancelled his trip by air. He was threatened with death and you could do nothing because it wasn't boko haram mercenaries, who were used and dumped by politicians that you're facing. If the Shia take up arms, you will regret your life. And mind you, the Shia are wise. When they take up arms, run! You are finished!!!! You can't win against them and they don't take up arms as last resort if not sure of crushing you. Keep pushing unarmed innocent Shia to the wall and keep opening your forty mouth in boast. When you can tread the path of peace, you are creating trouble and asking innocent Nigerians to take up arms. Keep your dirty acts up and you will get your wish one day. The problem is tyrants do not learn from each other's mistakes. Zakzaky is a non-violent person. And it is his peaceful personality that has made sure his followers not to react even slightly and even when provoked and pushed to the wall to defend themselves. The only terror group here is your sectarian Nigerian army. Go fight against it and cleanse it of Wahhabi terrorists. It's not peaceful and unarmed Nigerians treading the path of peace that are terrorists. You speak commandingly with "we" yet you sound like an illiterate, the same description a judge used to fees robe Buratai, the chief of terror staff. You must be an illiterate soldier supporting terror and massacre against Nigerians. May your end be terrible.

AnusOdourInhaler:

This is it.. The Shiite are terrible.. They don't recognized the Nigerian government, and they want to cause revolution in Nigeria like they did in Iran.. Well, we are watching, what happened in Sokoto is likely to happen again... The Southerners supporting them , don't really know who they are... Time will tell.

Look at the contradiction in your post. You do not want Shia to impose their faith on you, but at the same time claim Sunnis are majority so they will dictate. So by dictating, who is imposing on who? Have the Shia ever beheaded or killed anyone for not being Shia or not fasting during Ramadan as Sunnis generally, and the Wahhabi Sunnis in particular have done even recently?

You know nothing about Yemen and houthis. Before Yemen became a republic, was it not the houthis who were ruling Yemen? The houthis do not want to be dictated to in their country.

AnusOdourInhaler:

This is it.. The Shiite are terrible.. They don't recognized the Nigerian government, and they want to cause revolution in Nigeria like they did in Iran.. Well, we are watching, what happened in Sokoto is likely to happen again... The Southerners supporting them , don't really know who they are... Time will tell.

Look at your silly username. Your post has the same odor.

Iranians are 95% Shia. Iranians staged a revolution to free their country from economic and political bondage and imperialism. Egyptians are 90% Sunnis. They also staged a revolution. In fact two revolutions within two years!!! Why don't you stupidly claim Sunnis staged a revolution in Egypt and would do same in Nigeria if that is your excuse for massacre? How many revolutions have Christians staged in Europe? Citizens, not religions stage revolutions. But your conscience is dead and you are full of sectarian hatred. Is it not Sunnis that are spreading terrorism? Is every Muslim terrorist group on earth not Sunni? How many massacre has the sectarian Nigerian army ruled by Fulani terrorists committed against their fellow Sunnis? Stupid people spewing rubbish. Stop inhaling what your username states. It's disrupting your brain cells.

adams009:

Zakzaky is another Boko haram threat that military clear without allowing it to grow. IMN or Shiite never respect constituted authority, even the programme taking place on that same date that the incident occur was carried out without police permission. IMN have their own parallel security apparatus sponsored by Iran to carried out revolution in Nigeria.
Southerners commenting have no knowledge of the hardship this people are subjecting innocence people in the north.
For instance, when Kano state government ban taking any person on a motorcycle, people comply but shiites fails to comply because they are not law abiding. When they are out for their programs, they disrupt traffick, intimidate & harrass people, make inflammatory speech, carry weapons along.
I condemned extra-judicial killings, but shittes have a case to answer they are not civic at all & too arrogant think they are above the law.

If Zakzaky is another boko haram threat, then by now his followers would've carried weapons and fought the Nigerian army and force elrufai to run for his life and make Buhari cancel his trip to zazzau and force him to beg in humiliation like the Niger delta avengers did to him. Boko haram are Wahhabi murderers just like Buratai. They are Sunnis like Buhari . Zakzaky is Shia.

When you fail to obey traffic light, fail to obey okada ban and fail to obey traffic law, make inflammatory speech and you break any law, may the murderous terror sectarian army of Buhari and Buratai descend upon you and your family and massacre you in cold blood. When has an army turned to a law enforcement body on citizens? Stupid goat! Both the army and the commission set up by else rufai have not claimed the IMN is armed, except for the crude tools like stones and catapults.

Trust77:
You're talking rubbish... Your father is a coward and a big fool, so deserve to die. Why your stupid father block public road If you don't eat na you go die fool

Was it his father and mother and his three murdered brothers who were blocking the road? Or were they shot and killed in their home in cold blood? It looks like Buratai's paid online mercenaries have invaded the thread to spread falsehood and defend massacre based on false, empty and presumptive premises without any evidence, or facts. Shame!

pelepeleb:


Did this man in quote know the meaning of human right? gun if yes why his followers are violating other people right. my friend (s) let him face the music he wrote some times a go. Don't you see know that there is peace in Zaria when DDS keep him. what are his followers are doing with weapon of war( religion sect) answer to kill those that are not their member. so let military keep him till he die so that he and his deadly follower will not be able to kill innocent people (another boko haram). dey cool down there. he doesn't need any medical attention. all is camouflage. keep him there. thanks

Please can you tell us who did he and his followers kill? Are you deliberately spreading hatred and rumor to cover up for the sectarian army of Buhari? Where and when did Sheikh Zakzaky and his followers hurt anyone? Was it not the same sectarian army of Buratai shouting "no more Shia in Nigeria" when they were stabbing the private parts of innocent women in Zaria? Is this sectarian army any different from ISIS terrorists who kill Shia Muslims in Iraq and Syria? Was Buhari instructed by Wahhabi Saudi Arabia to carry out the Zaria massacre or not? Confess! Those who shout "no more Shia in Nigeria" should know there can be no more army in Nigeria and the Shia will remain. A sectarian army prejudiced against citizens of Nigeria from a particular faith can't stand the test of time nor can they defeat divine promise that victory will eventually belong to the oppressed.