Not only that Buhari regime lurks around the trumped-up charges against Sheikh Zakzaky and his wife in open and flagrant violation...
Not only that Buhari regime lurks around the
trumped-up charges against Sheikh Zakzaky and his wife in open and flagrant
violation of their fundamental rights but also abuses court process in a
blatant way by doing that.
This is glaringly obvious considering the fact that
the charges against the Sheikh centres on aiding and abetting his followers for
culpable homicide of one Corporal Dan Kaduna, and the same Kaduna State
Judiciary had already discharged and acquitted those falsely accused of
committing it. That this is the 3rd Kaduna High court to pass judgement on the
same and similar case is more than enough a proof of its being an abuse of
court process.
The public are aware that the spurious charges were
filed in 2018 to divert people's attention away from the Federal High Court
judgment delivered by Justice Gabriel Kolawole in December, 2016: and the
historic judgement ordered for unconditional release of Sheikh Zakzaky and his
wife Mallama Zeenah. It was not to be, and instead of the regime to obey it,
the much vaunted tyrant in the driving seat decided to arraign the couple at
Kaduna High Court. Isn't this a continuation of the army bloodbath that took
place in December, 2015? And the police have long since taken over! As far as
the judgement is concerned, Buhari has not observed a single minute in an
attempt to pay obedience.
press conference in abuja on sheikh zakzaky's trial
Buhari is the architect of the massacre in Zaria as
well as the senseless and incessant killing of free-Zakzaky protesters in
Abuja, and across the country at large. During Zaria-massacre the Nigerian Army
butchered at least a thousand people in cold blood. Sheikh Zakzaky's elder
sister and dozens of other women and children were flung into a room, locked
from behind, doused in fuel and set ablaze. These brutalities were initially
wrought under the pretext of "road blockade," and that of
"assassination attempt". But in his maiden media chat, the tyrant
falsified the two ridiculous pretexts and sought to justify the carnage with
his equally, nay far more, laughable conjecture of creating "a state
within a state".
press conference in abuja on sheikh zakzaky's trial
An update on the health of Sheikh Zakzaky and his
wife Zeenah is worth the public attention, and the news is always very sad and
distressing as their health continues to deteriorate. In the last sitting, on
24th February 2020, the Kaduna High Court affirmed that the couple were unfit
to stand trial, so an order was given by Justice Gideon KURADA, directing the
officials of the Kaduna Prison to grant the Sheikh and his wife access to their
doctors, but all to little or no avail.
Sheikh Zakzaky is being affected by progressive
glaucoma, cervical spondylosis and up to 55 bullet fragments with excessive
lead and cadmium poisonings in his body. He has been suffering from sleep
disorder, recurrent spiking hypertension, recurrent episodes of stroke, and
just few days ago, his cardiac ischaemia and ventricular hypertrophy were found
to deteriorate, he is now even requiring cardiac catherisation, thereby making
him far more unfit to stand trial.
It should be noted that the Sheikh has already
suffered two strokes in as many years while in detention. Both Sheikh Zakzaky
and his wife need urgent and critical interventions to salvage their health.
There is a serious lack of evidence from the part of
the regime and continues to exploit and abuse court process for sinister
motive. Taking such thing into consideration coupled with the health condition
of Sheikh Zakzaky and his wife, it is a mockery of justice as well as travesty
of court process for Kaduna High Court to continue the purported case against
the couple.
We therefore reiterate our demand for unconditional
release of Sheikh Ibraheem Zakzaky and his wife.
Abdullahi Muhammad Musa
For the Academic Forum of the Islamic movement in
Nigeria
28th July, 2020
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