The Islamic Movement in Nigeria has described the claims by the Federal Government that its leader, Sheikh Ibrahim Zakzaky, had wanted to seek asylum in India before his return to Nigeria last Friday as a campaign of calumny.
The group said the allegation was made by the Federal government “to cover its own misconduct in a foreign land.”
Responding to the issue, the President, Media Forum of the IMN, Ibrahim Musa, in a statement in Abuja on Sunday alleged that the FG went beyond its role of supervision to interfering in the medical process, dictating which doctors El-Zakzaky and his wife must see while refusing to allow them to access their own doctors at Medenta Hospital, New Delhi.
He added that before efforts at resolving the issue could be concluded, El-Zakzaky was brought back to Nigeria, “since their evil plans could not be executed.”
He further explained that El-Zakzaky refused to be subjected to any breach in the basic ethical principles guiding the medical treatment including respect for persons, protecting the autonomy of all people and treating them with courtesy, which he said the FG had contracted medical personnel in the hospital to breach.
