Unlawful detention: El-Zakzaky supporters threaten to sue FG at ICC

WORRIED by the continued unlawful detention of the leader of Shi’ite Islamic Movement of Nigeria, Sheikh Ibraheem Zakzaky, supporters of the Islamic leader has threatened to file a suit against the Federal Government before the International Criminal Court (ICC).

Addressing a press conference in Abuja yesterday, Dr Dauda Nalado, of the Academic Forum of the Islamic Movement, said the movement, “Will continue to push the case of Zaria massacre, which claimed the lives of several members of the movement at the International Criminal Court”.

Nalado told newsmen that the Police and the Department of State Services (DSS) arrested over 520 of El-Zakzaky protesters, including minors and pregnant women this year and had killed four El-Zakzaky protesters during a clash with the police in Abuja last week.

Nalado, who lamented the unfortunate massacre of members of the movement and the subsequent arrest of El-Zakzaky said the destruction of properties belonging to the Sheikh by the Nigerian Army in Zaria has rendered 1,866 children orphaned.

He said, “We wish to let the public know that we are fully aware of the role of Saudi Arabia and other countries that used President Muhammadu Buhari-led government to El- Zakzaky and annihilate his Islamic movement”.

Nalado said those that used Saudi Arabia to sponsor Zaria massacre shall be exposed in the near future and added that Sheikh El-Zakzaky-led Islamic movement is a self-sponsored struggle that is being financed by the Sheikh and his followers and not any country.

He also raised the alarm that the health condition of the Islamic leader and his wife is still in deteriorating state, saying, that recent medical check-up shows that the only remaining eye of Sheikh El-Zakzaky that was affected with glaucoma is in danger because the sickness has continued to spread and therefore needs an urgent operation outside the country.

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Nalado said, doctors handling El-Zakzaky’s case said there is no single hospital that can successfully handle the eye problem in the country and also pointed out that, “Sheikh is still suffering from the impacts of stroke he had some months back, added to his bullets injuries such that he is still ill and in urgent need of the best medical attention as soon as possible.

“His wife Zeenah suffers from increasingly frequent lower abdominal pains due to the bullets and other harmful particles still in her body and also suffers a Cartilage problem (Osteoarthritis).

“She finds it very difficult to walk or to sit. Both problems need an urgent surgery according to her doctors”, he said.

The movement, he said, will not watch President Muhammadu Buhari, Lawal Daura (DG, DSS) and their sponsors, Riyadh trying to kill Sheikh Zakzaky under illegal detention.