This is a press statement released
in response to the interview granted by Minister of Information and
Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed on Channels TV. Read the statement below:
PRESS STATEMENT: Release Zakzaky and wife to us
We watched the Minister of
Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed with dismay and anger on
Channels TV as he tried to justify the continuous and unlawful detention
of Sheik Zakzaky and his wife.
Alhaji Lai Mohammed said that sheik
Zakzaky and his wife are not being detained or in custody of the police
or DSS but in a home built by this government. This assertion by
Minister of Information is not only false but unacceptable to all well
meaning Nigerians and an insult to our collective sensibility.
You'd recall that over 1000 shittes
were killed by government forces in Zaria back in 2015 and till date no
one is on trial. The sheik and his wife have been denied access to his
immediate and extended family, his lawyers and members of the Islamic
Movement of Nigeria (IMN) who are his immediate constituent. How can the
Minister of Information say the Sheik and his wife are living in a
house built by this government and no member of his immediate family,
his lawyers or IMN members have been allowed to visit him in that house?
Information available to us suggests
that Sheik Zakzaky and his wife are still in DSS custody and have
remained there ever since their arrest in December 2015.
It is not true that no Nigerian is willing to be a neighbor to Sheik zakzaky or accept him.
We are willing and ready to accept
Zakzaky as neighbor. Infact our Kaduna state coordinator and members
both in Kaduna city and Zaria are ready to house Zakzaky and his wife
and support their reintegration into the society. We are also willing
and ready to provide accommodation for Zakzaky and his wife pending his
permanent reintegration.
We are therefore appealing to the
federal government to release sheik Zakzaky and his wife to us and end
his unlawful and illegal prolonged incaceration. This government must
remember that the world is watching and that it has the worst human
rights violation record in the history of our country.
God bless Nigeria.
Signed:
Deji Adeyanju John Danfulani
Convener Secretary
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