The Islamic Movement in Nigeria IMN
is aware of a meeting organized on 14th January 2016 by the General Officer
Commanding 1 Mechanized Division Major General Adeniyi Oyebade, with members of
some Islamic sects and some Muslim Chieftaincy title holders in Kaduna, where
the GOC made all efforts to convince them of the justification of killing over
1000 members of the Islamic Movement. After which he gave them N500,000. The
GOC carefully selected Wahabi sect scholars that have always rivalled the IMN
and operated campaigns of calumny and concocted lies against the IMN, to
commune in finding ways to wipe out the Islamic Movement and seek their support
in that. He constructed a story to convince the scholars and chiefs that the
Army acted angelic and that he pleaded with the members of the Movement all
through to surrender for a cordon and search operation, which the IMN resisted.
We wish to state here that he as a
Christian, the GOC himself is not safe from those religious bigots he is
communing with to fight Shi’ites because of their of religious intolerance and
this could be supported with the statement made to the press after the meeting
by Sheikh Zakzaky’s elder brother, Sani Yaqoub, who said the Shi’ites,
Jews, and Christians are of the same ilk.
The IMN needs not respond to the
malice and concoctions in the GOC’s tale of the unfortunate killing spree he
spare-headed on 12-14th of December 2015 because everything is now clear to the
world that the attack was pre-planned and deliberate and no amount of
fabrications could change that. Hence, the Army’s claim that it has no issues
with the IMN is deceptive because the blood of 34 members of the Movement was
hanging on the Army already barely a year before it launched its second attack
where it killed over 1000 unarmed members of the Movement, including innocent
women and children.
More so, the GOC must have been out
of touch with the recent events where the generality of people, both home and
abroad have condemned the propaganda movie he showed to the scholars, created
to demonize the IMN as a potential security threat as simply a way of seeking
cover-up and justifying the acts of extra-judicial killings.
Since the Army has announced that it
has no apology for killing unarmed men, women and children of the IMN, and that
it had no issues with the IMN, we challenge the government and the Army to
summon courage and release the revered leader of the Movement, His Eminence,
Sheikh Ibraheem Zakzaky, other members of the Movement and also hand over the
corpses of those they murdered.
Signed:
Ibrahim Musa
President
Media Forum
The Islamic Movement
0805 078 6093
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