The Islamic Movement in Nigeria (IMN) has vowed to take a legal action against the Nigerian Army over alleged killing of one of its members, Jibril Usman Sarki, who was an inmate in Kuje Correctional Centre over Free-Zakzaky Protest. IMN made the threat in a statement by Dr. Dauda Nalado on behalf of the Academic Forum of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria on Saturday in Abuja. The statement is titled: “Army Killed Free-Zakzaky Protester at Kuje Prison.” “The team of Nigerian Army that was dispatched to Kuje after the prison…
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Passport seizure: You lied on El-Zakzaky, wife’s health status, personal physician replies Malami
Dr Abubakar Yahaya, one of the personal physicians of Leader of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria (IMN), Sheikh Ibraheem El-Zakzaky, and his wife, Malama Zeenah, described the comment made by the Attorney General of Federation (AGF) and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, on their health status as untrue and falsehood. Dr Yahaya stated this, on Monday, in a statement made available in Abuja and titled: “Seizing Sheikh Zakzaky’s Passport, AGF, Admit Guilt.” He said Malami’s media publication on the 22nd of November, 2021, in which he asserted that the health…
Read MoreIMN dragged IGP, AGF to court 6 months after alleged unlawful arrest of member
The Islamic Movement in Nigeria (IMN) said it has filed a suit against the Inspector-General of Police (IGP) and the Attorney General of the Federation (AGF) over allegation bordering on unlawful detention of its member, Yahuza Haruna Masaka, six,months after his arrest. Abdullahi Muhammad Musa, the Secretary, Academic Forum of the Islamic Movement, disclosed this in a statement on Tuesday in Abuja. Musa said the suit, marked: FHC/ABJ/CS/807/2021 and filed on August 3rd, 2021, is presently before Justice Obiora Egwuatu of a Federal High Court, Abuja. “Strange and unprofessional, the…
Read MoreAlleged passport seizure: Court to hear El-Zakzaky, wife’s N4bn suit against DSS, AGF Jan. 19
A Federal High Court, Abuja, has fixed Jan. 19, 2022, for hearing the suit filed by Leader of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria (IMN), Sheik Ibraheem El-Zakzaky, and his wife, Zeenah, against the Department of State Services (DSS) and Attorney-General of the Federation (AGF). Justice Inyang Ekwo, on Friday, fixed the date to allow the defendants in the fundamental right enforcement suit respond to allegations leveleld against them. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that while El-Zakzaky and his wife are applicants in the separate suits, the DSS DG…
Read MorePerpetrators of Zaria, Abuja massacre will surely be brought to justice, says IMN
The Islamic Movement in Nigeria (IMN) has said that time would come when perpetrators of killings of its members in Zaria and Abuja would be brought to justice. The Secretary for the Academic Forum of the Islamic Movement, Abdullahi Muhammad Musa, gave the assurance on Tuesday in a statement issued to mark three years after members of the group were allegedly killed in Abuja by security agents. In a statement titled: “3 Years After Abuja Massacre, Buhari Regime Still Silence,” Musa condemned the act. “We have so far compiled details…
Read MoreIMN debunks alleged 7-day planned protest in FCT
The Islamic Movement in Nigeria (IMN), on Thursday, refuted the rumour going the round that the group had planned to embark on seven-day protest beginning from October 6 in Abuja. Abdullahi Muhammad Musa, the Secretary, Academic Forum of the Islamic movement, dismissed the information in a statement he signed in Abuja. “The Islamic movement under the leadership of Sheikh Ibraheem Zakzaky has no plans for any 7days protest that was supposed to start yesterday, October 6, 2021. “It Is unfortunate that an agency of the United Nations (UN) that is…
Read MoreArbaeen symbolic trek: IMN accused Buhari of ordering Guards Brigade to attack its members in 2018
The Islamic Movement in Nigeria (IMN), on Monday, accused President Muhammadu Buhari of ordering the Guards Brigade to attack its members who were observing the Arbaeen symbolic trek in 2018. Sheikh Sidi Munir Sokoto, one of the executive members of IMN, made the allegation in a statement he released after the commemoration of the fortieth day (Arbaeen) of Imam Husain, the grandson of Prophet Muhammad (SAWA)’s death in Abuja. “Today, not only in Nigeria but in Karbala, this Arbaeen commemoration has become the largest human gathering on earth with over…
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