The wife of the leader of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria (IMN), the Shia Muslims organization, Zeenah El-Zakzaky, has bemoaned the pains and challenges she has been experiencing as a result of the bullets that are still lodged inside her stomach.
Recall that on December 14, 2015, military personnel opened fire on Zeenat and her husband, Sheik Ibraheem El-Zakzaky, in Zaria, Kaduna State.
At the International Qudus Conference and Exhibition on Saturday in Abuja, Zeenah said she has been experiencing excruciating stomach cramps that have made life more difficult for her.
In her speech to the movement’s participants, Zeenah said she was unable to stand or sleep because of her frequent, intense pains but that she was still alive because of Allah’s grace. Her voice was filled with emotion as she spoke.
“I know we are living because Allah wants us to live,” she said. You are aware that I am experiencing excruciating cramps as a result of the bullets in my stomach. In fact, whenever I experience severe cramps, I frequently fear that I will pass away looking stunning.
“I am unable to walk or sit down. The cramp won’t go away no matter what I do. As you can see, I use a wheelchair everywhere, including when I go from my bed to the bathroom.
“I can’t stand on my legs because all of the cartilage is gone. For Sheik, his own condition is even worse because he has more than 42 bullet fragments in his body, according to the doctors. He has in the skull and eyes.”
Zeenah accused the Nigerian government of deliberately making life more miserable and difficult for them by refusing to return their passports and other traveling documents.
She expressed displeasure at the way and manner the Department of State Services (DSS) and the Nigerian Intelligence Agency (NIA) have been tossing them around over their passports despite a court judgment acquitting and discharging them of the charges leveled against them by the government.
She said, “After coming out of the court, the DSS said the passports were with the Nigerian Intelligence Agency (NIA) and NIA through a source said the passports are with them but they continue to play with our intelligence and we understand that they are not going to give them to us.”
While lamenting the gruesome killing of six of their children during the July 2014 Quds day killing and the 2015 Zaria massacre by the Nigerian Army, Zeenah said she was no longer afraid of death.
She insisted that Shiites would not be subjected to servitude by the oppressors irrespective of the killing and intimidation of the members of the Shia Muslim community.
Zeenah added that her husband was going blind on a daily basis due to glaucoma which affected his two eyes.
She said: “During the Zaria massacre when three of my children were killed, I was happy that part of me was being sacrificed for the liberation of Palestinians.
“I told the oppressor that you have failed, that you have killed our people does not mean that we are going to stop our struggle.
“After the Zaria massacre, they killed another three of my children. I am still telling them now that here I am now; I am also ready to give my life. I am waiting for you because what is left for me again You have killed my children and the people I love.
“You have guns, bombs, and bulldozers, we don’t have these weapons but we have our souls and we will never surrender to you. We will always resist your injustice even when our blood is being spilled.”
She, therefore, called on President Bola Tinubu to facilitate the release of their passports to enable them to travel out of the country for necessary treatments.
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