Heavily armed soldiers of
Operation Lafiya Dole have arrested two members of the Islamic Movement in
Nigeria (IMN) living in Tsangarwa of Gwaram local government area of Jigawa
State.
A statement yesterday by
its spokesperson, Ibrahim Musa, said "the soldiers who arrived the town in
3 trucks conducted a house to house search on members of the Islamic Movement,
claiming they were tipped that members of the Islamic Movement in the town were
piling up arms with a view to taking revenge for the Zaria massacre by the
military in December 2015.
"This ridiculous
allegation is clearly a pretense by soldiers to execute their hidden sinister
motives".
According to him, the
movement will never resort to violence in the pursuit of its ideologies and
objectives
"We have always made
it clear times without number that Sheikh Zakzaky-led Islamic Movement in
Nigeria is a peaceful mass Movement, whose forty-year history is devoid of any
resort to violence in the pursuit of its objectives. Not even after the
murderous mission of the military in Zaria, were arms recovered as attested by
the report of the Kaduna state Commission of Inquiry.
"This is a clear
vindication of our position on use of arms, that only the insane would use
weapons to propagate ideas rather than positive thinking, reasoning and use of
proofs," the movement said.
The movement, therefore,
condemned the military action and called for the unconditionally release of
their members immediately, adding that they have committed no offense.
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