From Leadership on Jun 8, 2015
Leader of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria, Sheikh Ibraheem Zakzaky has advised the new government under president Muhammadu Buhari to re-constitute and re-orientate the Nigerian army in order not to inherit ‘an army that sees citizens as enemies’.
According to the Islamic group leader, Buhari should not expect a good result by using such a ‘disoriented military to settle dispute or crisis, for the Nigerian military is in itself an agent of crisis and destruction’.
Sheikh Zakzaky gave the advice at the annual parade ceremony of the Islamic Movement Volunteer Guards (Khurras) attended by thousands of people at the Zaria Polo ground during the weekend.
He opined that the Nigerian military lacks courtesy and standard human relations in dealing with people, adding that, the only thing it specialises in was to kill unarmed citizens in which it takes great pride.
He averred further that, “the present government should not expect a good result by using such a disoriented military to settle dispute or crisis, for the Nigerian military is in itself an agent of crisis and destruction.”
Citing the 2014 Quds Day massacre in which he alleged that the Nigerian military in broad daylight killed 34 people including three of his children, Zakzaky further argued that, the Nigerian military exhibited high level of wickedness which also exposed them as the real Boko Haram. “That day we saw the real faces of Boko Haram in their full gear and uniform, Boko Haram was nothing but the government of Ebele Jonathan”.
He described as ridiculous how after the extra-judicial killings and torture, one Brigadier General Umama of the Zaria depot wrote a memo to the Army Headquarters indicating that the Nigerian military had won a war with no casualty and had captured prisoners of war and one ambulance as a proceeds of war.
