Hundreds of members of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria popularly known as Shi’ite, have again hit Abuja, the nation’s capital to protest the continuous detention of their leader, Ibrahim El- Zakzaky by the President Muhammadu Buhari administration and also to commemorate the third anniversary of the clash with soldiers in Zaria in which nearly 1,000 of the sect members died in December 2015.
The sect in their numbers thronged the Adetokunbo Ademola Street along the popular Amigo Supermarket in Abuja brandishing placards with varying inscriptions such as “Free Zakzaky”, “Buhari is a tyrant” among other unprintable inscriptions against the Nigerian Government.
At the time of filing this report, the protest appeared peaceful as no security agencies had engaged them as it happened late last year when soldiers and policeman unleased force on the sect in different parts of the nation’s capital killing scores and injuring many others.
One of the leaders of the group, who preferred to be anonymous told our correspondent that “We will not stop the protest until our leader is freed and we don’t care if they shoot us.”
