FG bans Shi’ites nationwide, to treat anyone associated with the group as enemy of the state
Following the declaration of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria( IMN aka Shiite) as terrorist group by a Federal High Court in Abuja on Friday, Inspector General of Police, Mohammed Adamu, has ordered the arrest of anyone associating with the group or promoting its agenda.
In a press conference in Abuja on Tuesday 30 July 2019, IGP Adamu said:
Let me affirm that in relation to the Islamic Movement in Nigeria, in view of their increasing engagement of terror tactics and other violent and subversive activities which contravene the Terrorism Prevention Act 2013, as amended, and vide the judicial pronouncement of the Federal High Court, Abuja on 26th July, 2019, the federal government has classified them as a terrorist group and has accordingly, proscribed the El-Zakzaky-led Islamic Movement in Nigeria, he said.In consequence, henceforth, any person engaged or associating, in any manner that could advance the activities of the proscribed Islamic Movement in Nigeria, shall be treated as a terrorist, enemy of the State, and a subversive element and shall be brought to justice within the context of the Terrorism Act. The import of this is that all forms of procession or protest by IMN is now illegal and thus banned, he added.
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