El-Zakzaky's Daughter Gives Chilling Account How Soldiers Tortured, Shot, Arrested Her Father and Mother

Daughter of Sheikh Ibrahim El-Zakzaky, leader of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria has given a touching and horrific account how the military raided their house before torturing and beating their parents to stupor.

Leader of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria, Sheikh Ibrahim El-Zakzaky after he was beaten by the Army (Photo:File)

 

Suhaila, daughter of the detained leader of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria, Sheikh Ibrahim El-Zakzaky, has given graphic details how Nigerian beat, shot and arrested her mother and father during the uprising that claimed many lives.

 

She made the shocking revelation yesterday during a press conference at the Kaduna State Council of the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ). She also claimed that the army killed and massacred innocent civilians during the unfortunate incident of December 12, 2015 in Zaria Kaduna State.

 

Suhaila, 23, who gave detailed account of the encounter said: “We were at home on that faithful day when the attacks on Hussainiyya started, we only conversed with people over the phone. It was pretty ‎much a normal day, then around 10pm we heard gunshots from far because there were people in the lane leading up to the house, it turned out that the military was there and advancing towards the house.

 

“We spent the whole night with the shootings going on and it was reported that people are being killed. The next day, [while] people were saying the early morning prayer, they got the opportunity to get close to the house and eventually got to knock down the walls of the house with their tanks. When they entered the house, they killed as much people as they could, burnt some alive. We were fortunate to be in the part of the house that was not burnt but they assumed everyone was burnt dead, so they did not really search where we were.

 

“We spent that whole day with the soldiers, we could hear their shooting from far and there was fire all over the house, and we spent the night like that. In the morning, I think they came to search the rest of the house to see what’s there and what’s not, myself, my mother and father and some other members of the movement were there when they got to the place we were in the house, they took shooting positions and shot at us continuously for a few seconds or up to a minute. When they stopped, that was when we realised my father and mother had been shot, my three brothers and some of the people that we were with had been shot dead.

 

“They took us away one by one, most of the people I was with, me, my sisters and the other people were beaten up before we were taken to the Army Depot in Zaria where me and my sister spent four days, from the 14th December to 18 December, they also took our parents away and we did not have any contact with them”.

 

She revealed that since the ugly incident and no one knowing the whereabout of their parents, life has been very difficult to live. “Thanks be to Allah, we have been coping fine, we are waiting for justice and we hope that we will find that”. she added