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Sheikh zakzaky in plane to India
Sheikh Zakzaky didn’t seek asylum in India, says
IMN
The Islamic Movement in Nigeria has described a recent statement
credited to the federal government that its leader Sheikh Zakzaky
had wanted to seek asylum in India before his repatriation as part
of a campaign of calumny by the government to cover its own gross
misconduct in a foreign land.
This was made known in a press statement issued to newsmen today
by Ibrahim Musa, president Media Forum of the Islamic Movement in
Nigeria.
The Islamic Movement further accused the federal government of
mischievously going beyond its role of supervision to the level of
maliciously interfering in the medical process, instructing on
which doctors the Sheikh and his wife must see, while refusing to
allow them access to their own doctors, which confirms the
allegation that the government had wanted to kill the Sheikh in the
name of medical treatment.
“Before efforts at resolving this impasse could be concluded,
the Sheikh was brought back to Nigeria, since their evil schemes
could not be executed. The government is now churning out
contradictory explanations to blame the Sheikh for not allowing
himself to be killed in the name of medical treatment. The Nigerian
government is also blackmailing the Sheikh that he sought for
asylum in India just to cover their own gross misconduct in a
foreign land,” according to the press statement.
Below is the press statement:
RE: The Repatriation Of IBRAHEEM ZAKZAKY From India – The
Facts
Sequel to the Nigerian government’s sinister operation that
frustrated the treatment of the revered Sheikh Ibraheem Zakzaky (H)
and his wife Malam Zeenat Ibrahim in India that led to the
repatriation of the couple, the Nigerian government, in its effort
to deceive the general public, has concocted contradictory
statements and lies to color its acts of violating the order given
by the Kaduna High court allowing the Sheikh to seek treatment in
India, with the government only supervising.
The facts are that the government mischievously went beyond its
role of supervision to the level of maliciously interfering in the
medical process, instructing on which doctors the Sheikh and his
wife must see, while refusing to allow them access to their own
doctors. Apparently, the government had a hidden mission, the
details of which they had detailed specific doctors to execute. The
Sheikh was forced to either accept their choice or return home
within two hours.
Being mindful of the government’s various previous plots to
eliminate him since 2015, first through the barrels of the gun and
much later through poisoning in detention while refusing him access
to adequate medical care until the court’s intervention, the Sheikh
sensed the government’s intention of inducing killer doctors to
finish what they had earlier started, now through the back door. He
therefore insisted on having the presence of the doctors that
initially assessed him in Nigeria, who also worked in that
hospital, failing which, he preferred to return to Nigeria.
He refused to be subjected to any breach in the basic ethical
principles guiding the medical treatment of people of respect for
persons: protecting the autonomy of all people and treating them
with courtesy and respect and allowing for informed consent, which
the Nigerian government had contracted medical personnel in the
Indian hospital to throw to the wind.
Before efforts at resolving this impasse could be concluded, the
Sheikh was brought back to Nigeria, since their evil schemes could
not be executed. The government is now churning out contradictory
explanations to blame the Sheikh for not allowing himself to be
killed in the name of medical treatment. The Nigerian government is
also blackmailing the Sheikh that he sought for asylum in India
just to cover their own gross misconduct in a foreign land.
The campaign of calumny has been championed by the Federal
Ministry of Information, which sarcastically even said they were
apologising to India for the Sheikh’s “unruly behaviour” rather
than for their own obvious attempted assassination of somebody in
another country!
Isn’t it rather contradictory that someone allegedly seeking
asylum would be unwilling to stay back irrespective of the
circumstances but preferring instead to return to his home country.
It is on record that it was the Sheikh who requested to be brought
back home having been denied access to his doctors and rejecting
the killer squad engaged to “treat” him instead.
The government’s claim that Sheikh’s wife antagonized the
Nigerian officials by accusing them of killing her three children
is yet another spurious search for justification for its
maltreatment of the couple. Isn’t it true that it is the government
that killed her three sons when its army invaded their residence at
night in December 2015? Wasn’t her husband dragged over the corpses
of their murdered children having been shot himself and left
swimming in his own pool of blood? Wasn’t she also shot and left
lying lifeless in the process? Were they expecting a cheer from her
for all these severe gross violation of their fundamental rights,
even as judged by a competent federal court?
It is rather very shameful and a slap in the face of Nigeria
that the government which hitherto claimed it had no hand in the
case, now has to resort to lies, calumny and blackmail against a
couple whose alleged crimes has never ever been proved in any court
of the land. All the allegations against this couple have always
been merely spurious and unproven, and knowing that they could
never prove in any court use the might of state power to intimidate
and misinform the public.
It is noteworthy to state that the government is yet to respond
to the confessions by the Saudi Arabian Crown Prince that they
sponsored the Zaria genocide and the subsequent continued detention
of the Sheikh in Nigeria. This same fact was earlier alluded to by
President Muhammadu Buhari during a state visit to Qatar. The world
is watching all the persecution of the Islamic leader with keen
interest. The government can never change the narrative.
We wish to thank the general public for their continued
understanding and show of support in all these. No amount of
feeding the public with concocted half-truths, lies and campaigns
of calumny would swerve the course of justice for all the victims
of Zaria genocide and its aftermath.
SIGNED BY
IBRAHIM MUSA
PRESIDENT MEDIA FORUM OF ISLAMIC MOVEMENT IN NIGERIA