By Gabriel Onoja
“As followers of Sheik Ibraheem
El-Zakzaky, we shall never submit ourselves to the dictates of the Nigerian
government even if our own lives will be taken away by the forces of its
security agents.” Sheik Sanusi Abdulkadir Koki, IMN’s newest leader.
Truly God loves Nigeria. Despite
months of desperation to conceal the evil plot of Nigerian Shiites on Nigeria,
by the sect leaders and their international allies, the truth has surfaced
irrepressibly. Security agents in Nigeria need no further evidence greater than
this bold, verbal affront on the sovereignty of Nigeria to unambiguously
dissect the destructively, possessive mindset of Nigerian Shiites as the newest
wing of terrorism in the country.
The treacherous comments were made in
Kano by the newest leader of the Shiites in Nigeria or the Islamic Movement in
Nigeria (IMN), Sheik Sanusi Abdulkadir Koki. The remarks were made during the
burial of some dead members from the sect’s induced clashes with the Police
recently in Kano state, which left some officers dead.
Sheik Koki described the sect’s dead
members as martyrs who have in infamy adhered to “the very footsteps of Imam
Husain (AS) who was massacred alongside his followers, for not surrendering
himself to the dictates, wish and whims of Yazid Bin Mu’awuya.” He further
prodded the sect members never to subject themselves to the dictates of the
laws of the Federation of Nigeria.
For the Shiites, it is a history of
unjust rebellion against the state or constituted authority, from wherever the
sect evolved. And its adherents anywhere in the world are neck-deep into this
aberration unknown in decent climes.
But Nigerians know that the IMN is not
a registered organization in Nigeria, despite its near 40 years of existence in
the country. And recently, the criminal activities of the sect earned it a
lawful ban in Nigeria, through the Kaduna state government, where the sect’s
headquarters is domiciled. The ban has also been replicated in Kano state.
The doubt that has just been cleared
is the sect’s self-proclamation of its status as Nigeria’s latest brand of
terrorists after the defeated Boko Haram Terrorists (BHTs). And the Nigerian
Shiites are making no pretenses about its determination to outshine the cruelty
of BHTs in violent assault on the Nigerian state.
Nigerian Shiites have displayed traits
of sects that eventually mutate into terror groups in the country. In 2009 when
BHTs surfaced under the leadership of Yusuf Mohammed, their first target was
security agents, especially the police. In the early eighties, the notorious
Maitatsine sect led by a 1945 Cameroonian migrant into Kano city, Alhaji
Mohammed (Muhammadu) Marwa also began violent campaigns by openly traducing
laws of the state and attacking security agents who enforced compliance.
Marwa’s inciting preachments to
followers were overlooked and underrated for years, just like the Shiites have
gathered momentum, for more than three decades and now stepping out to
courageously challenge the authority of the Nigerian state.
In flaunted flags of dishonor, the
Nigerian Shiites have indeed exuded every sign of a sect, which is not only
irreligious, but its members’ as budding terrorists nourished from afar. They
have rejected compliance with every law and government’s directive. They are
ever ready to violently confront the state to impose their own laws on the
state.
Each time Nigerian Shiites storm the
streets / roads with “religious” processions, they are armed to the teeth with
assorted primitive, but dangerous weapons, which advertise them as nothing
else, other than venomous insurgents on the prowl. It has never been a
co-incidence to find Shiites members brandish weapons like catapults, stones,
swords, clubs, bows and arrows, dane guns, leopard skins, as bulletproof vests
and powdered charms during all their processions.
It is this unprovoked inclination to
violence by Nigerian Shiites that led to the violent attack on the convoy of
the Chief of Army Staff (COAS) Gen. Yusuf Buratai in Zaria, Kaduna state, in
December 2015. The latest incidence of the Shiites brutal confrontation of the
police in Kano, which resulted in the death and injuries of some police
officers is the unmistaken affirmation of the sect members’ as terrorists,
disguised as religious worshippers’.
Linked to Iran, founders of ISIS, the
world’s most dangerous terror sect, Nigerian Shiites delight in breach of
public peace. Each time, the Shiites step out, tension in the country is
heightened and their conduct is always in negation of all certified Islamic
norms.
But more than anything else, what has
bolstered the Nigerian Shiites to violently lay siege on parts of Nigeria is
the active support it receives from the Republic of Iran.
The United Nations (UN) is now silent
on the matter, but Iran as a UN-member nation has continued to secretly plot
the complete destruction of Nigeria. Iran has ultimately destabilized Nigeria,
by its years of sponsorship of terror sects in the country. It has not veiled
its funding of BHTs which held Nigeria to the jugular, until recently when the
Nigerian military overpowered it.
Factional leader of Boko Haram,
Abubakar Shekau speaks glowing of the terror sect’s affinity to Iran. The
emergence of another Boko Haram factional leader, Abu Musab al Barnawi was also
appointed by the ISIS of Iran. The recently redeployed Iranian Ambassador to
Nigeria, Saeed Koozechi had openly threatened Nigeria and undermined the
country’s laws by his provoking outbursts that Nigeria was playing with fire
with the continued detention of IMN’s leader, Shiek Ibraheem El-Zakzaky.
Therefore, when another Nigerian
Shiites leader Sanusi Koki boldly poked his members to float Nigerian laws and
disregard the Nigerian government, the shadows of Iran played out glaringly and
significantly. However, what the Shiites have failed to understand is that no
country in the world is governed without laws. And Nigeria is not an exception.
Iran’s backing and encouragement of a terrorists’ sect to challenge the
sovereignty of the country is a direct call to Nigerians to defend same.
Nigeria does not need any congregation
of Shiites in the country. The IMN members are free to migrate to Iran to
practice their detestable religious doctrines, blended with terrorism. As the
Nigerian Shiites declare their offensive on Nigeria, what is certain is that
the country cannot surrender its sovereignty to any sect. The Shiites cannot
continue to needlessly kill Nigeria’s security agents, especially the Police.
Iran should know that the resolve to defend the Nigerian Police and other
security agents from the dark forces and cruelty of the Nigerian Shiites cannot
be compromised.
With Koki’s riot act to Shiites
members, time has come for Nigerian government to crackdown on these Shiites
outlaws before their international human rights allies like Human Rights Watch
and Amnesty International manifest their supportive conspiracy of the Shiites
umbrage.
Even in Iran laws exist and violators
are penalized. Iran is quite displeased with Nigeria’s defeat of BHTs, which
explains the renewed attention to breed another set of terrorists in the
Nigerian Shiites to once again snatch the peace and respite Nigerians currently
enjoy. In Shiites, Nigeria is on the verge of a new wave of terror and the FGN
should henceforth, cease treating the issue with levity.
Onoja writes from the Centre Against
Terrorism and Extremism, Jos.
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