IMN alleges goverment frustrating El-Zakzaky’s treatment – TheNigerialawyer

•Indian group offers to foot Shiites leaders’ medical
bills

The Academic Forum of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria (IMN)
yesterday alleged that the Federal Government was frustrating the
emergency treatment of its leader, Sheikh Ibraheem El-Zakzaky, at
Medanta Hospital, New Delhi, India.

The movement’s Head of Media and Publicity,Mikaila Yunusa, in a
statement, claimed that sources from the medical facility informed
them that Nigerian security agents were allegedly colluding with
their western counterparts to thwart early treatment of the
Sheikh.

He alleged: ‘’Few hours after his arrival at Medanta Hospital in
New Delhi, India, the Nigerian government through its security
agents that escorted Sheikh Ibraheem Zakzaky, are devising
different plots to frustrate doctors from offering emergency
treatment to the Sheikh whose health has seriously deteriorated as
a result of the gunshots inflicted on him by the Nigerian army and
his subsequent poisoning during his detention in Kaduna where he
was illegally detained and deprived of medical attention for
years.‘’We are calling on the Nigerian government to stop playing
double standard in the unfolding and new twist in the plight of the
Sheikh.

‘We are also calling on the international community and people
of conscience and humanity, especially those that facilitated the
travelling of the Sheikh to India for treatment, to prevail on the
Nigerian government and its western masters to stop playing with
the life of the innocent leader, who is a victim of their continued
plot to ensure that he dies.’’

This comes as an Islamic group based in the Asian country,
Anjuman e-Haideri, offered to bear the medical expenses of the
ailing IMN leader.The intention was communicated in a letter dated
August 12, 2019, signed by its General Secretary, Mr. Bahadur
Naqvi, and addressed to the Managing Director and Chief Surgeon of
Medanta Hospital, Dr. Naresh Trehan.

The document read: “Maulana Ibrahim El-Zakzaky, who is a
prominent Shi’a Muslim leader having a large following worldwide,
will be treated in your hospital.“The Executive Committee of
Anjuman E-Haideri, Jor bagh, New Delhi, by the direction of our
Chief Patron, Maulana Kalbe Jawad Naqvi Sb, has decided unanimously
to bear all the medical costs incurred in India for his treatment.
Kindly consider our request, do the needful and oblige.”El-Zakzaky
and his wife, Zeenah, arrived New Delhi at 10:15a.m. (Nigerian
time) yesterday and was immediately taken to the hospital in an
ambulance.

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