{"id":62024,"date":"2018-11-16T16:13:49","date_gmt":"2018-11-16T15:13:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=62024"},"modified":"2018-11-16T16:22:20","modified_gmt":"2018-11-16T15:22:20","slug":"shittes-why-el-zakzaky-cant-be-released-gov-el-rufai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=62024","title":{"rendered":"Shittes:Reason El-Zakzaky Can\u2019t Be Released \u2013 Gov. El-Rufai"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Governor of Kaduna State, Mallam Nasir El- Rufai has provided reasons detained leader of the Islamic Movement of Nigeria, IMN, also known as Shittes, Sheikh Ibraheem El-Zakzaky, cannot be set free.<\/p>\n

El-Rufai said that El-Zakzaky was not being held illegally as widely reported.<\/p>\n

Recall that the Shittes leader was arrested in 2015, after a confrontation between members of the group and the Chief of Army Staff, General Tukur Buratai.<\/p>\n

According to the Governor, the IMN leader was detained on the orders of a competent court, being a suspect standing trial for multiple murders and other related criminal offences.<\/p>\n

Governor El-Rufai stated this yesterday in Kaduna, when he received management team of The Sun Publishing Limited.<\/p>\n

Although there was an order by a Federal High Court in 2016 that he be released, El-Rufai revealed that the said order had no bearing on El-Zakzaky\u2019s current case.<\/p>\n

The governor said the state government took time to investigate the Shi\u2019ite leader and discovered that his activities for more than 20 years had caused several killings.<\/p>\n

He said having concluded investigation, the state took custody of El-Zakzaky from the DSS and duly charged him with multiple murders.<\/p>\n

Explaining the alleged daily expenses of about N3.5 million on El-Zakzaky, he said the money was not on feeding of the Shi\u2019ite leader but on everything related to his protective custody.<\/p>\n

El-Rufai said El-Zakzaky is guarded by a detachment of soldiers and DSS operatives who live in the place he is being kept and who are maintained by the state government.<\/p>\n

He said, \u201cThe N3.5 million monthly feeding on El-Zakzaky is not only about his food, but other expenses on security men attached to him.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe security men are permanently stationed with him, they surrounded where he is kept.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe is in custody because he is facing murder charge which is not bailable, among other charges.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs a government, we decided to proscribe Islamic Movement in Nigeria (IMN) of which El-Zakzaky is the president because it is not registered with the Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC).<\/p>\n

\u201cSo, any procession in the name of IMN is illegal, as far as Kaduna State government is concerned.\u201d<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Governor of Kaduna State, Mallam Nasir El- Rufai has provided reasons detained leader of the Islamic Movement of Nigeria, IMN, also known as Shittes, Sheikh Ibraheem El-Zakzaky, cannot be set free. El-Rufai said that El-Zakzaky was not being held illegally as widely reported. Recall that the Shittes leader was arrested in 2015, after a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":62025,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62024","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=62024"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62024\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/62025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}