Sheikh Ibrahim El-Zakzaky, leader of the Islamic Movement of Nigeria was reportedly taken out of the country for medical attention after sustaining gunshot wounds during the clash between the Nigerian Army and members of his sect.
According to Vanguard Newspaper, multiple sources revealed this information in Abuja on Saturday, Janauary 23.
In the clash between the Army and the IMN, several supporters of the sect had been killed while many others with different degrees of injuries are still being attended to at the Ahmadu Bello University Teaching Hospital in Shika near Zaria.
El-Zakyzaky reportedly sustained about four gunshot wounds during the prolonged and bloody fiasco with reports from some quarters claiming that one of his eyes was affected.
Since the army seized him during the clash, the whereabouts of the IMN leader has constantly been kept under wraps before reports suggested that he was moved from Kaduna to Abuja for safekeeping.
According to the report, some security sources close to the proceedings of the matter revealed that El-Zakyzaky was flown to France for treatment by the Nigerian government secretly because the injuries he sustained were serious.
The sources also revealed that he had been returned to the country two weeks ago.
One of the sources said: “It is true that the federal government flew him out of the country for treatment. He was stabilized before he was brought back to Nigeria. The government did not want to take chances by keeping him in the country. We did not want a repeat of the incidence with the late leader of the Boko Haram movement whose death in custody exacerbated the crisis in the north east”.
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