Nigerian Muslim Leader Ill-treated at Indian Hospital

The Indian government has issued an ultimatum to Sheikh Ibraheem Zakzaky that he should leave the country as soon as possible.

The office of the leader of the Islamic Movement of Nigeria (IMN) has said this through its official twitter handle.

This follows IMN leader description of Indian hospital he was admitted at the as more worse than Nigeria hospitals. Earlier the Shiite leader alleged that the condition at the Indian hospital was very poor than those in Nigeria.

The leader of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria (IMN) was flown to India on Monday following a Kaduna court order last week.

He had requested to be allowed to travel to India for advanced medical treatment following the deterioration of his health and that of his wife Zeenah in detention.

In a leaked audio message in Hausa language and subtitled in English Language, El-Zakzaky accused the Nigerian authority of conniving with Indian authority to frustrate him by providing substandard medical treatment to him.

He said he was suppose treated at Medanta Hospital in New Delhi. However, he claimed that the hospital management was threatened never to admit him.

“The hospital I was taken to is pathetic and worrisome,” he said.

According to him, “The hospital officials received us well they told us that they parked two ambulance vehicles, deceiving the crowd while taking us out through another way, saying that it was for our safety.

He said he and his wife Zeenat were placed under a tighter security situation “worse than what we have been witnessed in Nigeria. We are currently more confined than when we were in Nigeria, worse than a prison setting.”

The IMN leader and his had been detained since December 2015 after a clampdown by soldiers who allegedly killed at more than 300 IMN members. The group has been proscribed by a recent court decision, though it has launched an appeal.

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