El-Zakzaky: Long Road To Freedom

<p><em>El-Zakzaky faces fresh hurdles<&sol;em><br &sol;>&NewLine;<strong><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;openlife&period;ng&sol;">OpenLife Nigeria<&sol;a><&sol;strong> reports that despite the freedom granted the leader of the Islamic Movement of Nigeria&comma; Ibrahim<strong> El<&sol;strong>-zakzaky and his wife&comma; Zeenat by a Kaduna State High Court on July 28&comma; the embattled senior Islamic leader may not breadth the air of freedom after all&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Signal to these effects emerged on Friday when the Kaduna State government filed fresh terrorism charges against Sheikh Ibraheem El-Zakzaky&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;The state government said it will also appeal the recent ruling of the Kaduna state High Court which discharged and acquitted El-Zakzaky and his wife&comma; Zeenat&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Kaduna state Director of Public Prosecution Mr&period; Dari Bayero disclosed this in an interview with journalists on Friday&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;He said the terrorism case was filed at the <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;premiumtimesng&period;com&sol;">Federal High Court<&sol;a>&comma; Kaduna on July 26&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Bayero said the case will be prosecuted by the Federal and Kaduna state governments&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;He said El-Zakzaky who was discharged and acquitted by a Kaduna state High Court on charges of culpable homicide among others is being charged under the Terrorism Act 2013&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;The federal ministry of Justice will send a team to come and prosecute with us”&comma; Bayero said&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;It would be recalled that El-Zakzaky was arrested by the military on December 14&comma; 2015&comma; after a clash between the movement and officers of the Nigerian army which resulted in the death of at least 347 members of the group&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;A soldier&comma; Corporal Yakuku Dankaduna who was allegedly murdered&comma; was said to be in the convoy of the former Chief of Army Staff&comma; Tukur Buratai&comma; during the December 2015 bloody clash between Shi’ites and the soldiers in the convoy in Zaria&comma; Kaduna State&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;