Sheikh zakzaky in plane to
Sheikh zakzaky in plane to India
Sheikh Zakzaky Whisked Away by Security Operatives on
Arrival in Abuja
As our leader Sheikh Ibraheem Zakzaky has landed safely at
Nnamdi Azikwe International Airport today, we wish to set the
records straight in order to disabuse the minds of Nigerians from
the false claims perpetrated in some sponsored stories and articles
in the media concerning his aborted medical treatment in India.
However before we do that, we vehemently condemn the way the
security agents whisked him away upon arrival without allowing the
multitude of journalists that were waiting for him for hours to
have a chat with him. We urge the security agency holding him
hostage to declare to the public where they are keeping him in the
country.
It is a well-known fact that the Nigerian authorities had tried
all their antics to see that the Sheikh wasn’t given a medical
leave. Distrustful of the Nigerian government’s offer of a jet to
take him to the destination, having survived its attempts to poison
and kill him while in detention, our leader Sheikh Zakzaky declined
the offer and chose to pay for his trip through the Emirates
Airline.
Their ordeal started right here in Nigeria when they were
schedule to board the plane to Dubai. After a 2 hours’ drive from
Kaduna to Nnamdi Azikwe international Airport in Abuja, they were
not given enough time to rest before boarding the plane. They
endured an 8 hours flight to Dubai and another 3 hours flight to
New Delhi. Under normal circumstances, as patients suffering life
threatening ailments they shouldn’t have been subjected to such
exhaustion. Nonetheless our leader and his wife endured the journey
hoping that they will get good treatment when they reached New
Delhi.
However, despite their need for rest, they were forcibly wheeled
to a hospital on arrival without their personal physician that
accompanied them from Nigeria. They were then subjected to physical
examination in the absence of the doctors that initially examined
them in Nigeria and when they requested for their presence, it was
turned down. Another physician that came from London was also
denied access to them despite his familiarity with the Sheikh’s
case from Nigeria. It was at this point that Sheikh Zakzaky lost
confidence in the whole process and refused any further attempt to
have him forcibly treated.
Moreso, the Hospital compromised its independence and medical
ethics, treating without obtaining consent of the patients. The
health workers were further more interested in taking selfie with
the Sheikh and posting on social media, thereby violating their
privacies. When the Sheikh noticed some physical assault in
addition to the background circumstances, he lost complete
confidence in the hospital and demanded to see his own doctors for
a substitute arrangement. It is well within every patient’s right
to decide whether or not to be treated and to also decide who
attends to his health. It is called giving of consent, which every
sane autonomous person with capacity is entitled to. Contrary to
the Nigerian government’s press statement, that misinformed that it
was against “medical ethics and standard practice,” it is in fact
at the very essence of medical ethics, which every elementary
medical person knows.
The interference of the government raised suspicion that it was
planning to kill the Sheikh in India using its international
connections. He insisted that if he would not be allowed to see the
doctors that brought him to India he would rather come back to
Nigeria and seek another destination for his treatment. This became
clear because of the government’s stance insisting on other doctors
than the ones that he was in India to meet. They finally decided to
bring him back for refusing to succumb to be treated by their
chosen doctors.
It is worth noting that the Kaduna high court allowed the Sheikh
to go to India with the government only supervising, instead the
federal government presented him to the Indian government as a
dangerous suspect with an unknown ailment coming to India and
demanded stringent security placed on him. There was even a report
that the security agents in India subjected him to physical
assault.
It is glaringly clear that the Nigerian government had an
ULTERIOR MOTIVE it was nursing using its connections in India when
it violated court order and interfered with the procedures of the
Sheikh’s treatment. This can also be deduced from the way the
security agents whisked him away to unknown destination after
arrival at Abuja International airport, without allowing him to
have audience with the journalists that were waiting for his
arrival.
The Islamic Movement will however continue its struggle to
ensure that our leader gets the appropriate medical treatment he
deserves as ordered by the Kaduna High court. And as we continue
with the struggle, we wish to reiterate our call for the federal
government to comply with an earlier Abuja high court that has
freed him since 2016. We believe obedience to this court order will
finally solve the crisis that has been lingering since the Zaria
genocide of December 2015.
SIGNED BY
IBRAHIM MUSA
PRESIDENT MEDIA FORUM OF ISLAMIC MOVEMENT IN NIGERIA
SKYPE: Ibrahim.musa42