Hawzah News Agency-The Muslim Rights Concern, MURIC, has condemned the Kaduna State Government for declaring the Shia IMN an “insurgent group”. The civic group described the action of the Kaduna State Government as “a very dangerous dimension.”

Kaduna State Government in its White Paper released on Monday stated that “for all intent and purpose, the IMN is an insurgent group and ought to be treated as such.”

The government said it would prosecute the detained leader of the IMN, Ibrahim Zakzaky.

Mr. Zakzaky and his wife have been detained without trial since December last year after soldiers killed over 1000 members of his group.

The killing was condemned by local and international rights group.

The Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC) rejects this new label for an otherwise pacific organization. The new declaration is nothing short of calling a dog a bad name in other to hang it. Kaduna State government is being economical with the truth, killing a fly with a sledge hammer and engaging in executive tyranny.

This is a very dangerous dimension. Coming shortly after a competent court of law ordered the release of the IMN leader, Shaykh Ibrahim Zakzaky from detention, this stigmatization is just another attempt by the state government to jump the gun.

Kaduna government is pregnant with ingredients of all the five evils which Chamberlain spoke about, viz, brute force, bad faith, injustice, oppression and persecution. Why it that the only thing men learn from history is that they learn nothing from history?

MURIC calls on well-meaning Nigerians to speak out. It was the great Shaykh Uthman Bin Fudi (Uthman Dan Fodio) who said, “In an unjust society, silence is a crime…” Let us speak up now before it is too late.