National Issues
El-Zakzaky – Free at Last! -By Gimba Kakanda
El-Zakzaky was charged, along with his wife, on eight counts, among which were alleged culpable homicide, unlawful assembly, disruption of public peace, to which he pleaded not guilty.
I just read that Sheikh Ibrahim El-Zakzaky has been acquitted. The court declared that the prosecutor couldn’t prove the case against him. Since 2015, after the unfortunate massacre of the members of the Islamic Movement of Nigeria, which he leads, he had been standing trial and serially denied bails granted by the court.
El-Zakzaky was charged, along with his wife, on eight counts, among which were alleged culpable homicide, unlawful assembly, disruption of public peace, to which he pleaded not guilty.
I don’t even want to begin to list the indignity and cruelty El-Zakzaky and family have faced in this long walk to freedom—having his children murdered without justice, his followers massacred and the survivors repressed and persistently harassed, and yet they were denied even the mere constitutional right to protest the glaring denials of justice by the government.
This isn’t justice. The damage has already been done. But he lives in a society that treats the Shiites, of which he’s the most prominent leader, as sub-humans who don’t deserve to live. The same society even robbed the corpses of massacred Shiites, and gloated over a crackdown that led to the deaths of hundreds of fellow human beings—for simply adhering to a sect other than theirs.
