My attention was drawn to the recently released UK foreign office Travel Advisory on Nigeria ahead of the February 2019 general elections.

An excerpt from the Advisory stated:

"The FCO also warned of potentially-violent protests by members of the Islamic Movement of Nigeria (IMN) ahead of the February 2019 elections."

This is not correct. All protest by the Islamic Movement in Nigeria are peaceful. All of them! Except those attacked by the Nigerian army and police. The Islamic Movement do not organize violent protest and that is why members of the Islamic Movement take their wives and children to protest marches.

During the recent #Arbaeen procession in Nigeria, the Nigerian army after killing more than 60 Shia mourners lied that they were attacked. The New York Times later released a comprehensive video of the procession that shows the contrary claims of the Nigerian army. It was the Nigerian army that attacked the peaceful procession and used battlefield weapons to murder the innocent.

I will tag the Twitter Handle of the UK Embassy in Nigeria to this post. Spreading hostile and fraudulent propaganda is malicious and will only add fuel to the ongoing Saudi-sponsored #ShiaGenocide in Nigeria.

The oppressive and tyrannical Buhari regime brutally slaughtered 1000+ members of the Islamic Movement that included hundreds of women and children in December 2015 in Zaria. The daily #FreeZakzaky protest is to call for the release of the leader of the Islamic Movement, Sheikh Ibraheem Zakzaky and his injured wife from more than three years unlawful and illegal detention incommunicado.

Harun Elbinawi
elbinawi@yahoo.com