{"id":38062,"date":"2015-12-26T22:06:42","date_gmt":"2015-12-26T21:06:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newmail-ng.com\/?p=38062"},"modified":"2015-12-26T22:06:42","modified_gmt":"2015-12-26T21:06:42","slug":"disband-shiite-sects-zaria-residents-tell-fg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newmail-ng.com\/disband-shiite-sects-zaria-residents-tell-fg\/","title":{"rendered":"Disband Shi’ite sects, Zaria residents tell FG"},"content":{"rendered":"

Residents of Zaria, Kaduna State have called on the Federal Government to urgently ban the Sheikh Ibraheem El-Zakzaky-led Shiite movement in their communities for allegedly unleashing untold hardship on them in the last 20 years.<\/p>\n

Addressing a press conference in Kaduna, the spokesperson of the affected Zaria communities, Idris Mohammed Baba alleged that the Shiites had held the people in Zaria and Sabon Gari local government areas hostage with impunity, adding that the sect is running a parallel government in the country.<\/p>\n

The communities also said that the Shiites had in May 2015 declared 24 youths persona non grata for challenging their activities in Gyellesu community where Zakzaky resides.<\/p>\n

Narrating his ordeal in the hands of Shiite followers in Zaria, Baba said: \u201cMy experience with Shiite followers is disastrous and terrible, at a point Shiite boys threaten to kill me.\u201d<\/p>\n

He continued that \u201cThere is one notorious Shiite boy call Ali. He is the leader of El-Zakzaky\u2019s notorious boys who accompany him anywhere he goes.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are happy over military action against Shiite\u2019s movement in Zaria because we have fresh air now blowing in our areas.<\/p>\n

\u201cBefore, we can\u2019t grant interview to the world about Shiite\u2019s activities, but now we are sleeping with our two eyes closed.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs a community, we wrote letters to the governments about ungodly activities of Shiites but no single action was taken. We no longer
\nreport Shiites to police because they will never honour police or security invitation.<\/p>\n

\u201cThese Shiites are authority unto themselves; they don\u2019t respect authority, security and so on.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are Muslims but we discovered that Shiites activities are contrary to Islam. They carried dangerous weapons openly molesting
\ninnocent people in our areas. Human rights groups should also look into our pains by Shia sect\u201d<\/p>\n

Alhaji Saidu Garba, one of the Gyallesu\u2019s elders, who also spoke, said, the once booming economic activities in the area have been crippled due to the activities of Shiites.<\/p>\n

According to Garba, \u201cAfter, El-Zakzaky was released from detention in 1999,he came and settled in Gyallesu since then there is no peace in our area.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe thank Allah for touching the heart of government and the military to liberate us from Shiites untold hardship.<\/p>\n

\u201cShiites killed many of our people who challenged their activities,we buried them and we cannot talk to the world because of their threat.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe were living like slaves in our own land which Shiite leader, Sheikh El-Zakzaky came and met us. We residents of Gyallesu are
\ncalling on the Federal government to ban Shiite movement in our community and Kaduna state as a whole. Government should put a stop to Shiites\u2019 ungodly activities in our area,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

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