Police ban Shi’ite procession in Kaduna state
The Nigeria Police Force (NPF) have banned the proscribed Islamic Movement of Nigeria (IMN), also known as the Shi’ites, from organising a procession to mark the 2024 Islamic Ashura day in Kaduna State.
Penpushing reports that Kaduna State Police Command Mansir Hassan, announced the ban in a statement declaring the plan gatherings as illegal and unconstitutional, emphasizing that anybody caught in the act will face full weight of the law
‘The command has banned every manner of illegal protest in the state. This is coming on the heels of a received intelligence indicating that the proscribed Islamic Movement of Nigeria also known as Shi’ite are planning a procession to mark the 2024 Islamic Ashura Day ceremony’, he wrote.
‘It is an undeniable fact that the said ritual practice has in the recent past been characterised by unimaginable violence leading to the destruction of properties, injuries to persons and even loss of lives. It is against this backdrop that the Police command is warning the said sect members, who were since proscribed by law, to drop such a procession idea’, he stated.
Penpushing further reports that Hassan said the police would not hesitate to bring the full weight of the law to bear on any person or group, especially the outlawed Islamic Movement of Nigeria (IMN) members, that dared to violate the ban.
The police spokesperson added that the Commissioner in the Command, Ali Dabigi, has called on all law-abiding persons to go about their lawful endeavours without fear, stressing that the authorities would not allow the relative peace in the state to be compromised by the deviance of a few renegades.
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