Leading the protesters was the secretary of the academic forum in Nigeria, Abdullahi Musa, who said they had gathered to know the position of the Senate regarding the continued detention of their leader.
“This is the third time we are coming here. We submitted a lot of documents to the National Assembly but we are yet to get any response.
“We submitted the third batch of documents yesterday and we came here today to hear from them.
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“We do not believe in the so called protective custody. We want him freed so that he can go for his treatment. They have inflicted several injuries on him. What we ask for is that justice prevails,” he said.
According to him, their protest to the National Assembly was to know what the Senate would do and if government plans any action regarding their members who he said were killed by security operatives during peaceful protests across the country.
“They killed our member and government has been silent. We want to know what their position is,” Musa said.
Trouble started for El-Zakzaky and the IMN in December, 2015 when some members of the group allegedly denied access to the convoy of the Chief of Army Staff, Lt. Gen. Tukur Buratai along the Zaria-Kaduna road.
Thereafter, the military stormed the commune of the sect and killed over 300 members and buried them in mass graves, Amnesty International claimed.
Since then, the sect have been having running battle with security agencies especially in Kaduna, Kano and Abuja.