The tutorial Forum of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria has expressed concern over the deteriorating health of leader of the group, Sheikh Ibrahim El-Zakzaky, and his wife, Zeenat.
The group said information at its disposal showed that during the December 2015 clash with soldiers, bullets embedded in El-Zakzazy 's skull and body were threatening his life.
Abdullahi Muhammad Musa, spokesperson for the AFIM, said the Nigerian Government had prevented physicians from providing medical help for the Islamic cleric.
He also claimed that a team of Indian doctors that came to Nigeria for the investigation and review of his case were refused access to him.
"He said," Available data reaching us revealed that Sheikh Ibraheem Zakzaky and his wife Malama Zeenah Ibraheem's health condition is severely deteriorating."Our concern about Sheik Zakzaky's declining health is growing, as there is no allegation that a person of his serious condition will remain in jail.
How on earth will he still be in jail with bullet shrapnel causing more damage to a case that is only getting worse. Sometimes it is not unplausible that there are any dark reasons behind the Regimes that insist on keeping it in the highest. How else can the actions of the regime be explained.
“Take as an example the aborted trip to India. From the start , after the travel permit was granted by a court, moves were made by the govt to frustrate it. If not for Sheikh Zakzaky's relations who dug in their heels to make sure that the trip actually happened . In agreement with the writ , and in fact presidential approval, for the journey, the govt was to only supervise. However, rather than doing what it had been alleged to , the govt wanted to seize control of the trip, and began issuing commands and orders: starting from an insistence that half a dozen security operatives, including a police doctor accompany them, to restraining the amount of relations who could join them, to sabotaging the entire trip. This among other things amounted to compromising of the Sheikh's and his wifes health and security.
“Therefore, because the Sheikh arrived in India on 13th August, 2019, he was welcomed into a decent and hostile security dragnet additionally to the deceitful reception at the airport and therefore the hospital concourse which culminated within the refusal to permit his personal physicians access to him. Even the team of physicians who came to Nigeria to examine and examine his case were denied access to him. Instead they were substituted with very unusual set of unfamiliar doctors that acted in ways in which caused the sheikh and his wife to become suspicious.
“On return, soon , the Buhari regime, defied all odds and transferred the seriously ailing Sheikh and his wife to the unhealthy prison in Kaduna where doctors lack proper access and even facilities to handle their cases. The regime was keen on putting finishing touches to what it had started by whatever means possible. Since it couldn't achieve it through the barrel of a gun, it had been deemed achievable with the connivance of conscienceless, unruly elements. When it didn't compute to their expectation, prison became the pis aller . This contempt for his critical health condition is in fact a cause for suspicion, as sinister motives perhaps dwell there.
“It is clear that the Sheikh's critical health condition has not been given the eye it so requires. Otherwise, it might not have gotten to the present . If criminals and people who still loot and pillage the country dry receive special treatments, how will Sheikh Zakzaky remain incarcerated despite the brutalities against him. Six of his nine children were murdered in cold blood, his residence set aflame and demolished, over thousand of his followers massacred.
“His wife suffers from severe arthritis in her knee joints, which her doctors have said can only be treated with knee replacement surgery since a minimum of three years ago. She also has loose fragments of bullet pieces in her abdominal area which cause an outsized number of episodes of periodic life-threatening complications together with her organs, the wheel chair bound mother of nine is hypertensive. Even one among the ailments suffered by either of them constitutes a really serious medical emergency, including a mixture of all of them. It should be remembered that while in custody the Sheik has already suffered two strokes. Both Sheikh Zakzaky and his wife need urgent and important interventions to salvage their health.
“In view of the deteriorating health condition of Sheikh Ibraheem Zakzaky (H) and his wife Malama Zeenah Ibraheem, we are demanding for unconditional release of the couple.”
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