El-Zak Zakky: Stop Shiites from trekking to Abuja – CATE

The Coalition Against Terrorism and Extremism on Monday in Abuja called on the Federal Government to stop members of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria, also known as the Shiite sect, led by Ibrahim El-Zak Zakky from trekking from Zaria, Kaduna State to Abuja.
The group said the members of the IMN constituted a serious security risk to the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja and the entire country.

The spokesperson of CATE, Gabriel Onoja, told journalists that the Federal Government must not shirk in its responsibility to “protect other Nigerians from the extremism being promoted by the sect.”
While warning that the country already had enough security concerns, he called on the Federal Government to take action to manage the situation, warning that the IMN must not be allowed to export their culture of blockade of vital roads to another city least of all the nation’s capital, Abuja.
Onoja said, “With the existential threats facing the country at every turn, the message must be sent out clearly that no religious leader or adherent is above the law. Anyone who tries to further compromise our collective security should be made to answer for their actions.

“We urge religious, traditional and political leaders in the North to call this horde to order. Northern elites have a lot of work to do; those northern youths who attend only Islamic centres to the exclusion of contemporary education must be better managed henceforth as dubious scholars often find them willing recruits for extreme doctrines.”