Attack on Shiites: Hypocrisy, deception, cowardice

Hired thugs with police escort went from house to house and from shop to shop of members of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria looting their property and striking them with cutlasses and other sharp objects in Kaduna.

They moved from community to community with the thugs cheering the police and the police telling them that they are doing a good job.

What is more is that among the police officers leading the operation were also flanked by two known Wahhabi clerics whose names I will reserve for later mention chanting “no more Shi’a”.

My wife is a direct victim because her chemist is one of the places targeted at Unguwan Muazu where they destroyed all the medicines and broke all the shelves and the display glasses. Closeby was a provision store owned by her younger brother from which they stole everything including the deep freezer. They also entered their family house and looted a lot of property and electronics.

It would be a stupid insult on the police to claim that they were not aware of what was happening because it didn’t just take place instantaneously and finished it took place for over five hours moving from community to community. For the police to have claimed ignorance of it tells the stuff the police is made of.

After they had a field day looting from the Shiites, the Police Public Relations Department issued a press release that said nothing. There was no mention of any plan by the police to arrest the thugs or to even investigate the matter. There was also no remorse or commiseration with the victims by the police.

All the police said was that they have observed that some members of the public have become lawless and act in manners detrimental to law and order and in total disregard to rights of other citizens.

This statement is not any different from that of the Kaduna state Governor Nasir El-Rufai who shed crocodile tears after butchering the Shiites on the day of Ashura claiming that perpetrators of the crimes should be arrested and made to face the law. He also deceptively claimed that he commiserates with the victims.

This whole saga is a plot intended at dispersing the Islamic Movement in Nigeria (IMN) and also blackmailing its members. They wanted the IMN members to engage the police, police dressed like thugs carrying arms and the hired thugs. They have made all efforts to provoke IMN members into violence but all to no avail.

Being that the IMN did not react to their plan they decided for the worse and attacked the houses and shops of IMN members but still, their plans have not succeeded as even the public are condemning the governor and the police for irresponsibility.

Abdulmumin Giwa, Zaria Kaduna state