UNSPECIFIED NUMBER OF PERSONS FEARED DEAD AS SHIITES MEMBERS CLASH WITH EL-RUFAI’S CONVOY
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Shi’ites members of the banned Islamic Movement in Nigeria (IMN), also known as the Shiites, and security personnel assigned to the convoy of Kaduna state governor Nasir El-Rufai are said to have clashed, resulting in an indeterminate number of fatalities.
When the Governor traveled to mark off the rebuilding of the road that connects to the Kaduna International Airport, the event took place on Thursday in the Rigasa neighborhood along the Nnamdi Azikiwe Western Bypass in the Igabi local government.
According to some local sources, IMN supporters were protesting alongside the road and demanding that the Federal Government release their leader, Sheikh Ibrahim El-Zakzaky, and his wife Zeenat’s foreign travel permits.
A member of the group, Mohammed Ibrahim told Channels Television that the IMN members started their Procession from Gwamna Road junction heading to Bakinruwa along the expressway when they met the Governor’s convoy coming in the opposite direction. He claims that the security details attached to the Governor’s convoy immediately opened fire on the innocent protesters, and in the process killed some of their members and injured several others.
The police authorities in Kaduna State are yet to comment on the incident, but a government official who was in the Governor’s convoy told our correspondent that the shitte members were heavily armed with dangerous weapons during the Procession, and on sighting the governor’s convoy, they started attacking the vehicles with catapults and other dangerous weapons, and in the process injured some occupants of the vehicles and passers-by.
He wondered why the security details would have opened fire on innocent people unprovoked, noting that the shitte members already had a sinister motive to embark on the procession in a bid to cause violence in the state.
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