Group slams FG for refusing to release Elzazaky, wife’s passport

An group, Concerned Abuja Indigenes, has raised an alarm over non-release of the passport of the leader of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria (IMN), Sheikh Ibrahim Zakzaky and his wife, after being acquitted and discharged by the court.

In a statement signed by Ayedo Danjuma Abdul, the group requested immediate release of their travelling documents to enable the couple embark on medical treatment overseas for their health challenges.

It added that the gunshot injuries sustained by the cleric and his wife had affected their eye sights and other parts of their body.

Part of the statement read, “We urge the federal government to release Sheikh El-Zakzaky’s passport along with his wife’s to enable them travel to the hospital of their choice to avoid the return to the street protests by his supporters which turned Abuja from the city it used to be to a seemingly battleground.”

The statement observed that as a result of the police brutality against El-Zakzaky protesters, many businesses were disrupted, and lives lost on numerous occasions, including two journalists, a police officer, many protesters, and even some of “our members”.