– An organisation has commended President Muhammadu Buhari for obeying court order for the leader of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria to go on a medical trip in India
– The organisation said the president and the government of Nigeria has proved that the detention of El-Zakzaky was never in bad faith but were necessary steps taken in national interest
– Peace and Justice Forum also called on the court to commence trial of the IMN leader without further delay
A civil society organization under the aegis of the Peace and Justice Forum has commended President Muhammadu Buhari for obeying court order allowing the embattled leader of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria (IMN), Ibrahim El-Zakzaky, to embark on medical vacation overseas.
The group said by that singular gesture, the government proved that, their detention and trial were not in bad faith but were necessary steps taken in national interest.
Addressing journalists on Sunday, August 18, the group through its president, Andrew Onuche, urged the court to commence the trial of the IMN leader without delay.
Onuche urged El-Zakzaky’s counsel and his supporters to prevail on him to defend himself in the court where he is being tried and stop the unnecessary comedy of embarking on medical tourism as an escape plot.
Alleging that El-Zakzaky only sought a medical vacation as a ruse to escape, Onuche said the IMN leader would have been checked into a five-star hotel as requested his Iranian handlers had infiltrated the place.
Onuche said: “Our expectation is that those who were deceived into being sympathetic to El-Zakzaky’s the IMN’s cause now have a vista into what they have been supporting.”
Also urging Nigerians to begin to question the NGOs that had sold the lies that the IMN is an armless group, Onuche commended the government of the Federal Republic of Nigeria for giving El-Zakzaky the privilege to have gone on the Indian medical trip.
He said: “We urge that there should be no further waste of taxpayers’ money for what has now been proven to be an escape bid. Such funds should rather be channeled into rehabilitating repentant IMN members.”
He also said that the government should in the meantime approach the court to note how the accused abused the travel leave granted by the court for making the inciting video broadcast.
“It should as well send a commendation not to the government and people of India for their support in managing the situation in a way that it was not internationalized like the IMN and Iran wanted.”
“The Nigerian government should equally run its own set of medical tests to establish the lies told by the Iranian doctors and supported by the group of 186 doctors with a view to reporting the other doctors (that are not Iranian) for medical malpractice. They abused their position of influence by lending themselves to a terrorist plot,” he added.
Meanwhile, Legit.ng previously reported that El-Zakzaky and his wife had returned to Nigeria after their trip for medical treatment in India.
