Najeeb Maigatari
IT has been months since the leader of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria, Sheikh Ibraheem Zakzaky and his wife, Malama Zeenah, were acquitted and discharged after spending almost six years in detention.
The couple had been languished in the custody of the State Security Service, before being transferred to Kaduna Correctional facility in early December 2019, with life threatening injuries and health complications.
It will be recalled that in July 2019 the couple was granted bail to urgently travel to India in order to attend to their failing health. Unfortunately, this was deliberately frustrated by security agents which resulted in the couple prematurely aborting the trip without receiving medical attention.
Now that the couple is acquitted of all charges filed against them by the Kaduna State government, justice demands that they should be allowed to attend to their health wherever they choose to go, without undue frustrations. But on the contrary, since their aborted medical trip, the couple’s passports and other documents that will allow them to travel have been reportedly withheld by security agents.
In an interview, the Sheikh pointed out that an attempt to procure new traveling documents proved abortive as the couple were reportedly told ‘passport flagging order’ was placed on them- meaning they will not be able to leave the country.
It is public knowledge that Nigeria’s health care is under equipped, with inadequate manpower. Many doctors, after carefully reviewing the couple’s health conditions, have advised that they would best be treated outside the country. The sheikh and his wife have suffered enough; not allowing them to travel at the moment is tantamount to rubbing salt in their wounds.
Jigawa State
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