Leader of the protesters and Secretary of the group’s Academic Forum in Nigeria, Abdullahi Musa,
told journalists that they came to the National Assembly to find out
what the lawmakers were doing about the continued detention of
El-Zakzaky.
He alleged that many of their members
were recently killed in Kano but that government seemed to be
indifferent, and would want to hear from the lawmakers what they
intended to do.
According to him, the group is worried
that, in spite of submitting several letters to the National Assembly,
it is yet to get any reply, while their leader continues to be kept in
detention.
“This is the third time we are coming
here. We submitted a lot of documents to the National Assembly but we
are yet to get any response. We submitted the third batch of documents
yesterday and we came here today to hear from them,” he said.
He also said that members of the group
were concerned about the safety of their leader and wanted to know the
state of his health.
“We do not believe in the so-called
protective custody. We want him freed so that he can go for his
treatment. What we ask for is that justice prevails,” he continued.
However, no lawmaker was available to
listen to the Shiittes protesters; instead, the divisional crime officer
in-charge of the National Assembly, Francis Anebi, addressed them appealing to them to be orderly.
El-Zakzaky was arrested after the Shiitte group was involved in a bloody clash with the Army in Zaria.
The group was accused of attacking the convoy of the Chief of Army Staff, Lt. Gen. Tukur Buratai while they were on procession in Zaria.
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