El-Zakzaky operated a parallel government for 20 years – Zaria residents allege

Some residents of Zaria, Kaduna State, have accused the spiritual leader of the Islamic Movement of Nigeria also known as Shiite, Sheikh Ibraheem El-Zakzaky of bringing untold hardship on them by operating a parallel government for over 20 years.

They appealed to the Federal Government to immediately ban the Zakzaky-led Islamic movement from their communities.

Spokesperson of the affected Zaria communities, Idris Mohammed Baba, while addressing a press conference in Kaduna on Sunday, alleged that members of the Shiite sect had held people in Zaria and Sabon Gari local government areas of the state hostage with impunity while they ran the parallel government.

Baba alleged that the sect had in May 2015, esponged 24 youths from Gyellesu community where Zakzaky resides for challenging their activities.

On the hardship residents had suffered in the hands of the Shiite followers for over 20 years, Baba said, “my experience with Shiite followers is disastrous and terrible. At a point, Shiite boys threatened to kill me. There is one notorious Shiite boy call Ali, he is the leader of El-Zakzaky’s notorious boys who accompany him anywhere he goes.”

Baba said the military action against the Shiite’s movement in Zaria recently was welcomed by the residents of the community because “we have fresh air now blowing in our areas.”

“Before, we couldn’t grant an interview to the world about the Shiite activities but now, we are sleeping with our two eyes closed. As a community, we wrote letters to the governments about the ungodly activities of the Shiites but no single action was taken. We no longer report Shiites to the police because they will never honour police or security invitation.

“These Shiites are authority unto themselves; they don’t respect authority, security and so on. We are Muslims but we discovered that Shiites activities are contrary to Islam. They carry dangerous weapons openly molesting innocent people in our areas. Human rights bodies should also look into our pains by Shiite sect,” he stated.

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