Senior special assistant to President Muhammadu Buhari on media and publicity, Garba Shehu, explained that government was worried that there could be a breakdown of law and order if the Islamic cleric was allowed to return home.
The protesters under the aegis of the Academic Forum of the Islamic Movement In Nigeria, AFIMN, decried the deteriorating eye condition of Zakzaky and urged the Federal Government to release him immediately in compliance with the judgment of the court.
Members of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria, IMN, on Tuesday marched to the National Human Rights Commission, NHRC, headquarters in Abuja in protest of the continued detention of their leader, Ibraheem El-Zakzaky, his wife and other members of the group.
Amnesty International, AI, an international human rights organization, has called on the Nigerian government to release the leader of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria, IMN, Ibraheem El-Zakzaky and his wife as ordered by a court of competent jurisdiction in December 2016.
