Of El-Zakzaky and tyrants

Although, it has been constitutionally stated that Nigeria is a secular state, the way some people and religious creeds are treated down here is telling us to say it’s just paperwork or a hoax, nothing but that in a true sense.

While commenting on Shi’ites in one of his clips, I watched some years back, the tyrant guy who loses the taste of sympathy at his tongue. He was like “I know the animals I’m dealing with”, after he showered all the vituperative phrases towards their innocent leader “Mallam El-Zakzaky”. Isn’t this injustice of the highest order?

And despite the awful names and razzmatazz people are pouring and labelling Shi’ites within this country, I’m yet to see any humble religious leader among these religious creeds who can withstand all such insipid treatments he has been experiencing over the years without paying a reprisal attack while he has all it takes to change the narratives.

I honestly doubt if there is any with such popular support and unflinching love from his diehard followers who can overlook and forget all the nasty gestures he has been receiving from the bloody hand of tyrants under a democratic setting as ours. He got his lovely sons killed, his wife injured, his life threatened, most of his supporters maimed and many of the aides brutally dealt with but he remains calm and un-disgustable.

Truth is that, if he was a “terrorist”, as many people tend to see him, Zakzaky would have madly rode on our backs more callously than the so-called untouchable Shekau of Boko Haram. His peace-loving personality, intellectual sagacity, and level of persistence and resilience to tyranny are second to none.

I reiterate, he is peace e-loving man with a high sense of reasoning, though he succumbs to stand with his unpopular religious stance in a mixed religious creed country like Nigeria his shrewdness while engaging all in business is very rattling.

To say the “Shi’ites” are peaceful compared to others is an understatement given my knowledge of their activities. They never discriminate against anyone, yet they are being persecuted by many all the time just because of their creed. 

I am not saying they have no evil side, socially they are saints but to my understanding, their errs as an organization don’t deserve such ill-treatment to which up to date their blood is being spilled by bloodsuckers parading as security agents.

To their religious ideology, I’m not inclined, and this an obvious thing for all for the fact that I’m a staunch Izala Jos faction follower and I will never disown that movement of ours which I view as something close to the truth.

Hauwa Isa Dogo,

Department of Mass Communication,

University of Maiduguri

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