- Say Police Have Recruited Civilian JTF Thugs To Join Them In House-tohouse Raids Of Shia Muslims
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In a seres of tweets after a meeting of Nigeria’s Islamic movement, the persecuted group has declared that the killing of a police officer in Kaduna was the secret plot of members of the Nigerian police and Civilian JTF thugs.
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PRESS CONFERENCE BY THE ISLAMIC MOVEMENT IN NIGERIA ON SATURDAY THE
23RD OF JUNE, 2018@BBCAfrica @AJEnglish @IntlCrimCourt @AmnestyNigeria @OfficialPDPNig @OfficialAPCNg @GovKaduna @john_danfulani @AsoRock @PoliceNG @EveryNigerian @zinadabo @SaharaReporters @Tutsy22 pic.twitter.com/oUW7LAFRPx— Harun Elbinawi (@ELBINAWI) June 23, 2018
2. It has come to our notice that the Kaduna State Police Command issued a press statement that it “wishes to inform the general public that again, on the 21st June, 2018, at about 1000hrs the violent members of the proscribed Islamic Movement of Nigeria (IMN) ….
— Harun Elbinawi (@ELBINAWI) June 23, 2018
3. ….popularly referred to as Shiite, armed with guns, knives, IEDs, etc violently attacked every Police officer on site, during which they brutally killed a Police Officer and injured several others.”
— Harun Elbinawi (@ELBINAWI) June 23, 2018
4. After that it was all on the news that a policeman was allegedly killed by the members of the #IMN while engaged in a free Zakzaky procession. To back up the story, there was a video supposedly of ‘Shiites’ lynching a policeman that has gone viral on the internet.
— Harun Elbinawi (@ELBINAWI) June 23, 2018
5. Most certainly, this is NOT true at all. It is the greatest subterfuge of all times. We have it on records that Senior Police Officers had met thugs called Civilian JTF a day before the incident at a place called Kinkinau Quarters of Kaduna and plotted this callous….
— Harun Elbinawi (@ELBINAWI) June 23, 2018
6. ….and unfortunate murders to be carried out when we come out to conduct our free Zakzaky processions. This was to discredit us in order to turn the tables against us.
— Harun Elbinawi (@ELBINAWI) June 23, 2018
7. Thus the reported killing of the policeman was a handiwork of some desperate people out to give a dog a bad name in order to hang it. It was the result of a joint handiwork of policemen and thugs.
— Harun Elbinawi (@ELBINAWI) June 23, 2018
8. Furthermore, the state Police Public Relations Officer was overheard a day before saying that there was going to be war the following day, and that he would personally take an AK47 and come out.
— Harun Elbinawi (@ELBINAWI) June 23, 2018
10. There are also reports reaching us that indicate that Police, in an unholy alliance with thugs called Civilian JTF, have planned a house-to-house attacks on certain targeted members of the Islamic Movement living in Kaduna from yesterday.
— Harun Elbinawi (@ELBINAWI) June 23, 2018
11. According to our sources, the police had assured the thugs of state backing and cover. “Nothing will happen to you,” they were told.
The Islamic Movement strongly distances itself from this crude act. It was most certainly NOT by members of the Islamic Movement.
— Harun Elbinawi (@ELBINAWI) June 23, 2018
12. Throughout our four decades of existence, the Islamic movement under Sheikh Zakzaky’s leadership has never resorted to violence even in the midst series of persecution of its members across the country. Why would anyone kill a policeman who is also a victim of bad governance?
— Harun Elbinawi (@ELBINAWI) June 23, 2018
13. As thugs were callously and unjustifiably killing a policeman, the police were actively sporadically shooting on members of the Islamic Movement with live ammunition as they scampered for cover. What time did they have to kill another soul?
— Harun Elbinawi (@ELBINAWI) June 23, 2018
14. Since December 2015, on the streets of Kaduna alone, we have lost 23 members to police bullets, and at least 5, this year alone. What have we done in response other than resort to Courts seeking the enforcement of our rights to peacefully protest?
— Harun Elbinawi (@ELBINAWI) June 23, 2018
15. This desperate tactics of wanting to smear our name is nothing new.
Any criminal activity done in the state, the police and authorities are quick to attribute to the Islamic Movement in Nigeria because of the hate it has for the Movement.— Harun Elbinawi (@ELBINAWI) June 23, 2018
17. They are coming out to peacefully protest for the release of their leader who had been in illegal and unconstitutional detention for over two and half years in spite a federal high court judgement ordering his immediate release since December 2016.
— Harun Elbinawi (@ELBINAWI) June 23, 2018
18. It is pertinent for the police to stop intimidating us whenever we are out exercise our constitutional rights of freedom of expression and peaceful assembly.
SIGNED BY
Prof Abdullahi Danladi
Resource Forum of the Islamic Movement— Harun Elbinawi (@ELBINAWI) June 23, 2018
