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FG Secretly Flies El-Zakzaky To France For Treatment, Back To Abuja

Farouk Mohammed
By Farouk Mohammed
Published: January 24, 2016
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It has been confirmed that the unknown whereabouts of the embattled leader of the Islamic Movement of Nigeria, Sheikh Ibrahim El-Zakzaky was because he was flown out of Nigeria to France for treatment of gunshot injuries he suffered during the encounter between his supporters and members of the Nigerian Army last year.

It would be recalled that during the bloody encounter between members of the Shiites and the Nigerian Army, several members of the sect were killed while many others sustained various degrees of injuries with some still on admission at the Ahmadu Bello University Teaching Hospital in Shika near Zaria.

According to Vanguard, the fracas occurred when members of the sect allegedly blocked the Zaria-sokoto road and prevented the convoy of the chief of Army staff from passing through despite several entreaties.

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Sheikh El-Zakzaky allegedly sustained several gunshot wounds with some reports claiming that one of his eyes was affected during the encounter.

Since the clash between the sect and the Military, his whereabouts has been shrouded in secrecy until it was revealed that he was moved from Kaduna to a safe house in Abuja belonging to one of the security services.

Several security sources who are knowledgeable in the matter however revealed that due to the seriousness of the injuries the Shiite leader sustained, he was secretly flown to France by the Nigerian government some weeks ago for treatment before being returned to the country two weeks ago.

One of the sources said: “it is true that the federal government flew him out of the country for treatment. He was stabilized before he was brought back to Nigeria. The government did not want to take chances by keeping him in the country. We did not want a repeat of the incidence with the late leader of the Boko Haram movement whose death in custody exacerbated the crisis in the north east”.

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