Protesters Storm Abuja High Court Over judgement Freeing El-Zakzakky

Thousands of angry protesters on Monday stormed the premises of the federal high court Abuja to protest the judgement of the court which ordered the unconditional release of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria (IMN) leader, Sheik Ibraheem El-Zakzaky from custody.

The prolawyers numbering about 500 carried various placards with inscription such as. "Kolawole should go, we are tired of bad judgement" among others under the banner of the Coalition on Good Governance and Change Initiative (CGGCI) and other Civil Society groups expressed concern over the judgement by Justice Gabriel Kolawole, saying it was done "without recourse to the consequences that this dangerous precedence would have on law enforcement, security, anti-terror fight, terrorism, extremism and secessionist movements in Nigeria."

Addressing the protest, CGGCI National President, Comrade Okpokwu Ogenyi said the "judiciary has dealt a fresh blow to the future of Nigeria by legalizing terrorism while leaving the rest of us at risk of losing our lives."

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He described the judgement as ridiculous, wondering how the judge could order the release of someone who poses grave security risk to the society through his extreme brand of foreign backed radicalization program in the name of religion.

He said, Nigerians are ever ready to do the needful in safeguarding the future of our dear nation and hence would demand that Justice Kolawole be investigated by the National Judicial Council (NJC).

He said, "In the space of one week, the judiciary has ordered dangerous fanatics and demagogues to be returned to the streets to resume brainwashing, radicalizing and militarizing vulnerable youths in the population. This could have only been in keeping with fulfilling obligations entered into for less than honourable considerations even as we cannot rule out a judiciary that is taking its pound of flesh from an executive arm that has exposed the sleaze on its soiled bench.

"If the entire judiciary has activated its vendetta against the security agencies that they see as the executive arm, the precedence set by Justice Gabriel Kolawole took things to the ridiculous by awarding N50 million of tax payers'money to finance IMN's radicalisation programme while also asking that the police further deploy its personnel to protect a man whose sect members would invariably kill like they had killed soldiers and policemen in recent past.

"This judge also failed to realize the weight of his utterance that has basically ordered the government to build a new headquarters for a proscribed group – we do hope he will keep himself on the bench for when other terror groups approach to demand for the government to build them headquarters.

"The house demolished in Gyellesu, on which the directive to build a new one for this demagogue, originally belonged to Alhaji Ismail Gwarzo the DG NSO under late General Sani Abacha. El-Zakyzaky was given the seized house by Gen Abdulsalam because people of Babban Dodo had at time also rebelled against IMN occupation which made them to burn his initial hub after he was released from another arrest for insurrection."

Speaking further, Ogenyi said, "justice Kolawole has murdered sleep. He did this confidently because security agencies under obligation use taxpayers' money to protect him and other judges, who therefore do not know the magnitude of the threat that terrorism poses to citizens.

The leader of the protest was later asked to write a properly addressed letter to the Chief Registrar of the court and submit through their lawyers.

IMN: Understanding Nigerians' Disdain For Terrorism, By Charles Ibekwe

These are certainly not the best of times for members of the Sheik Ibraheem El-Zakzaky led Islamic Movement in Nigeria (IMN) or the Nigerian Shiites. Their actions in the recent past have provoked very damning consequences for the sect members, much more as Nigerians are convinced of its links to the ISIS of Iran.

In the near 40 years history of its existence in Nigeria, the Shiites have steadily earned for themselves the reputation of violent extremists, destroyers and lawbreakers, whose impunity has extended to frequent violent attacks on security agents. In Shiites, Nigerians see a personification of brutality and the latest discovery of its hidden agenda to introduce another version of terrorism in Nigeria has compelled different segments of the Nigerian society to outrightly denounce and ex-communicate them.

By implication, the entire Nigerian state has risen against the IMN members, as other Muslims and communities do not wish to have anything to do with the Shiites. They are even rejected as neighbors to anyone, a stigma they are battling so hard to conceal.

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The Nigerian Shiites have attracted this ignominy based on some of their unacceptable actions and inclination to violence. In December last year, the Shiites attacked the convoy of the Chief of Army Staff (COAS) Gen. Tukur Buratai in Zaria Kaduna state. The IMN blocked his way and rejected all entreaties to have the road open for the Army boss to have a thoroughfare. The ensuing violent encounters led to deaths.

Similarly, earlier this month, the Shiites again, under the leadership of Sheik Sanusi Abdulkadir Koki attacked the Nigerian police in Kano state for daring to stop their annual procession for this year’s annual Arbaeen Trek to Zaria, an event that mourns the martyrdom of Imam Husain (AS). The Police which had declared the procession illegal, attempted to stop them, but were met with stiff resistance, as the sect members permanently armed, unleashed violence on the Police, leading to deaths and injuries to officers.

Thus, Nigerians cannot discern why the Shiites in Nigeria worship on streets/roads with long processions, instead of the mosque like other Muslims. And during such offensive processions, the sect members are usually armed to the teeth with dangerous weapons, they deploy to use without provocation. The atrocities of IMN members have been manifold and following the recent calls by Shiek Koki for its members never to obey the laws of the land, has further alienated them from the clan of sane people and the Nigerian masses who have become increasingly repulsive of the Shiites with their violent versions of Islam.

Protests against the Nigerian Shiites have taken place variously in America, United Kingdom, and Malaysia and indeed, in other parts of the world denouncing Shiites whose penchant to violence and its frequent attacks on security agents has assumed a dangerous impunity.

For instance, Nigerians in the United States of America protested against the liberty extended to the Shiites by the FGN and sued for the prosecution of leader of the sect and the members. Operating under the aegis of Movement of the People of Nigeria, Cosmas Collins, the US Coordinator of the group which staged a protest at United Nations Building and Nigeria House in New York frowned at the non-prosecution of El-Zakzaky.

He said, “Failure to prosecute these people, including El-Zakyzaky is making other groups think of coming out because it is now believed that it is fashionable to take on the state without consequences. The government must not also omit to consider bringing charges of subversion against members of the group for inviting Iranian intervention in Nigeria’s internal affairs. As a prelude to this, the government should investigate the finances of the group and its senior members to see if they have been beneficiary of Iranian sponsorship of terrorism”.

Back home in Nigeria, the Shiites are also rejected as no one is willing to associate or transact business with them. Saminaka, headquarters of Lere in Kaduna State recently demonstrated this aversion to the Shiites as both Christian and Muslim communities protested against the Shiites' plan to erect a building in the community. 

The provincial pastor of the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG), Mr. Oludare Ojo led the protests as he wrote to CAN kicking against the location of a Shiites' site near the church premises.

Ojo said “They are not comfortable since it is located directly in front of the church”. The pastor feared that with the recent incidents of violence initiated by the group in the country, its proximity to the Church was a threat. While Christians are protesting Muslims too have joined in rejecting IMN sect members.

Muslim clerics in the area equally alerted the Sarkin Saminaka and security agencies of threats by members of the community to forcefully destroy the site of the Shiite building if allowed to be erected.

In Kano state, Shiites protests for the release of El-Zakzaky provoked residents who massively ganged up to chase them away. A coalition of civil society organizations have at different times lashed out at the Shiites, calling for their prosecution over acts of violence and treason.

The rejection of Shiites has become so pronounced that even Shiites spokesman Ibrahim Musa recently lamented that, “When we were with other Muslims, they said they don’t want us and that is why we decided to build our centre here. The building is just an Islamic centre. We also have an Islamic school there in Saminaka. People who are against us, like the Izaila, those Muslims who go on pilgrimage to Saudi Arabia are the ones against us. We have a Certificate of Occupancy (C of O).”

The implication of this widespread rejection of the Shiites in Nigeria means their doctrines are detestable and they are no longer needed in a peaceful country like Nigeria. This has already been expressed in the IMN's ban by the Kaduna State Government and its replication in Kano and other places in the North.

What their Iranian collaborators intends to achieve through the IMN has been discovered quite early and the Nigerian Shiites are free to relocate to the abodes of their paymasters in Iran. But what has remained certain is that Nigeria would never be anywhere near Syria and Iran where the ISIS have found as a fertile ground to destabilize through their noxious campaigns of religion. Nigerians would not overlook their garments of terrorism.

A civil rights activist contributed this piece from 5 New Haven Avenue, Enugu State.

Nigeria On The Brink of Another Terrorism In Shiites, By Gabriel Onoja

“As followers of Sheik Ibraheem El-Zakzaky, we shall never submit ourselves to the dictates of the Nigerian government even if our own lives will be taken away by the forces of its security agents.” Sheik Sanusi Abdulkadir Koki, IMN’s newest leader.

Truly God loves Nigeria. Despite months of desperation to conceal the evil plot of Nigerian Shiites on Nigeria, by the sect leaders and their international allies, the truth has surfaced irrepressibly. Security agents in Nigeria need no further evidence greater than this bold, verbal affront on the sovereignty of Nigeria to unambiguously dissect the destructively, possessive mindset of Nigerian Shiites as the newest wing of terrorism in the country.

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The treacherous comments were made in Kano by the newest leader of the Shiites in Nigeria or the Islamic Movement in Nigeria (IMN), Sheik Sanusi Abdulkadir Koki. The remarks were made during the burial of some dead members from the sect’s induced clashes with the Police recently in Kano state, which left some officers dead.

Sheik Koki described the sect’s dead members as martyrs who have in infamy adhered to “the very footsteps of Imam Husain (AS) who was massacred alongside his followers, for not surrendering himself to the dictates, wish and whims of Yazid Bin Mu’awuya.” He further prodded the sect members never to subject themselves to the dictates of the laws of the Federation of Nigeria.

For the Shiites, it is a history of unjust rebellion against the state or constituted authority, from wherever the sect evolved. And its adherents anywhere in the world are neck-deep into this aberration unknown in decent climes.

But Nigerians know that the IMN is not a registered organization in Nigeria, despite its near 40 years of existence in the country. And recently, the criminal activities of the sect earned it a lawful ban in Nigeria, through the Kaduna state government, where the sect’s headquarters is domiciled. The ban has also been replicated in Kano state.

The doubt that has just been cleared is the sect’s self-proclamation of its status as Nigeria’s latest brand of terrorists after the defeated Boko Haram Terrorists (BHTs). And the Nigerian Shiites are making no pretenses about its determination to outshine the cruelty of BHTs in violent assault on the Nigerian state.

Nigerian Shiites have displayed traits of sects that eventually mutate into terror groups in the country. In 2009 when BHTs surfaced under the leadership of Yusuf Mohammed, their first target was security agents, especially the police. In the early eighties, the notorious Maitatsine sect led by a 1945 Cameroonian migrant into Kano city, Alhaji Mohammed (Muhammadu) Marwa also began violent campaigns by openly traducing laws of the state and attacking security agents who enforced compliance.

Marwa’s inciting preachments to followers were overlooked and underrated for years, just like the Shiites have gathered momentum, for more than three decades and now stepping out to courageously challenge the authority of the Nigerian state.

In flaunted flags of dishonor, the Nigerian Shiites have indeed exuded every sign of a sect, which is not only irreligious, but its members’ as budding terrorists nourished from afar. They have rejected compliance with every law and government’s directive. They are ever ready to violently confront the state to impose their own laws on the state.

Each time Nigerian Shiites storm the streets / roads with “religious” processions, they are armed to the teeth with assorted primitive, but dangerous weapons, which advertise them as nothing else, other than venomous insurgents on the prowl. It has never been a co-incidence to find Shiites members brandish weapons like catapults, stones, swords, clubs, bows and arrows, dane guns, leopard skins, as bulletproof vests and powdered charms during all their processions.

It is this unprovoked inclination to violence by Nigerian Shiites that led to the violent attack on the convoy of the Chief of Army Staff (COAS) Gen. Yusuf Buratai in Zaria, Kaduna state, in December 2015. The latest incidence of the Shiites brutal confrontation of the police in Kano, which resulted in the death and injuries of some police officers is the unmistaken affirmation of the sect members’ as terrorists, disguised as religious worshippers’.

Linked to Iran, founders of ISIS, the world’s most dangerous terror sect, Nigerian Shiites delight in breach of public peace. Each time, the Shiites step out, tension in the country is heightened and their conduct is always in negation of all certified Islamic norms.

But more than anything else, what has bolstered the Nigerian Shiites to violently lay siege on parts of Nigeria is the active support it receives from the Republic of Iran.

The United Nations (UN) is now silent on the matter, but Iran as a UN-member nation has continued to secretly plot the complete destruction of Nigeria. Iran has ultimately destabilized Nigeria, by its years of sponsorship of terror sects in the country. It has not veiled its funding of BHTs which held Nigeria to the jugular, until recently when the Nigerian military overpowered it.

Factional leader of Boko Haram, Abubakar Shekau speaks glowing of the terror sect’s affinity to Iran. The emergence of another Boko Haram factional leader, Abu Musab al Barnawi was also appointed by the ISIS of Iran. The recently redeployed Iranian Ambassador to Nigeria, Saeed Koozechi had openly threatened Nigeria and undermined the country’s laws by his provoking outbursts that Nigeria was playing with fire with the continued detention of IMN’s leader, Shiek Ibraheem El-Zakzaky.

Therefore, when another Nigerian Shiites leader Sanusi Koki boldly poked his members to float Nigerian laws and disregard the Nigerian government, the shadows of Iran played out glaringly and significantly. However, what the Shiites have failed to understand is that no country in the world is governed without laws. And Nigeria is not an exception. Iran’s backing and encouragement of a terrorists’ sect to challenge the sovereignty of the country is a direct call to Nigerians to defend same.

Nigeria does not need any congregation of Shiites in the country. The IMN members are free to migrate to Iran to practice their detestable religious doctrines, blended with terrorism. As the Nigerian Shiites declare their offensive on Nigeria, what is certain is that the country cannot surrender its sovereignty to any sect. The Shiites cannot continue to needlessly kill Nigeria’s security agents, especially the Police. Iran should know that the resolve to defend the Nigerian Police and other security agents from the dark forces and cruelty of the Nigerian Shiites cannot be compromised.

With Koki’s riot act to Shiites members, time has come for Nigerian government to crackdown on these Shiites outlaws before their international human rights allies like Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International manifest their supportive conspiracy of the Shiites umbrage.

Even in Iran laws exist and violators are penalized. Iran is quite displeased with Nigeria’s defeat of BHTs, which explains the renewed attention to breed another set of terrorists in the Nigerian Shiites to once again snatch the peace and respite Nigerians currently enjoy. In Shiites, Nigeria is on the verge of a new wave of terror and the FGN should henceforth, cease treating the issue with levity.

Onoja writes from the Centre Against Terrorism and Extremism, Jos.