Army Ransack Jigawa Village For Alleged Arms Stockpile; Shiite Kicks

Operation Lafiya Dole of the Nigerian Army, yesterday, Wednesday, swarm Tsangarwa village in Gwaram Local government of Jigawa state in search of alleged arm stockpile, even as the Islamic Movement of Nigeria (IMN), known as Shiite, described the action of the army as uncall for.
The action of the soldiers was said to be as a result of an intelligent information that Shiite group was going to revenge for the Zaria massacre in December 2015.
But, the IMN said that such allegation is ridiculous and “is clearly a pretence by soldiers to execute their hidden sinister motives.”
The invasion of the army on the village was made known by the Shiite itself, saying that heavily armed Soldiers of Operation Lafiya Dole in three trucks, arrested two members of the Islamic Movement living.
“The soldiers initially arrived the town allegedly acting on a tip off and conducted a house to house search on members of the Islamic Movement but found nothing incriminating.
“The soldiers claimed they were tipped that members of the Islamic Movement in the town were piling up arms with a view to taking revenge for the Zaria massacre by the military in December 2015. This ridiculous allegation is clearly a pretence by soldiers to execute their hidden agenda.
“We have always made it clear, times without number, that Sheikh Zakzaky-led Islamic Movement in Nigeria is a peaceful mass Movement, whose forty-year history is devoid of any resort to violence in the pursuit of its objectives. “Not even after the murderous mission of the military in Zaria, were arms recovered as attested by the report of the Kaduna state Commission of Inquiry.
“This is a clear vindication of our position on use of arms, that only the insane would use weapons to propagate ideas rather than positive thinking, reasoning and use of proofs.
“We therefore strongly condemn the military action in strong terms, and call on them to unconditionally release them immediately. They have committed no offense. We also insist that there must not be a repeat of such intimidation anywhere again.”[myad]