By: Kayhan Int’l Staff Writer

Lawlessness rules Nigeria, where prisoners break free from jails in thousands and the regime remains helpless to stop the armed attack, but for the innocent languishing behind bars for years, there is no freedom.
Recently, gunmen firing machineguns and lobbing grenades stormed a prison in southeast Nigeria to free over a thousand and eight hundred convicts, while the orders of the Federal Court for release of the peace-loving Leader of the Islamic Movement of Nigeria (IMN), continues to be ignored by the regime of Muhamadu Buhari.
Why is Buhari powerless to prevent the Biafra separatists or the Boko Haram terrorists from indulging in all sorts of lawless acts in the country?
And why does he refuse to free Sheikh Ibrahim Zakzaky and his wife Zeenah, who are being held captives in an undisclosed location since their abduction by the Nigerian army in December 2015?
The answers are obvious. The former military general who had staged a coup in the 1980s to seize power and now for the past few years rules as an ‘elected’ self-styled ‘democratic’ president, is not his own man.
This is evident by his fear of those who have weapons to attack and shed blood (under foreign protection), like the Boko Haram and the separatists.
In contrast he bares his fangs to kill and trample peaceful Nigerian protestors whenever they rally in the streets –in full conformity with the country’s constitution – to demand the release of Sheikh Zakzaky.
It is indeed unfortunate of an oil-rich country to be immersed in poverty and following orders for the fate its own citizens rife from foreign countries.
Just a few days ago, Nigerians adhering to the teachings of the Prophet’s Ahl al-Bayt and calling themselves Shi’a Muslims were fired upon in the capital Abuja, and a few of them killed by the regime’s forces.
Buhari, however, does not have the guts to firmly say "no” to the illegal Zionist entity and seditious Saudi Arabia when these two rootless regimes dictate terms to him.
It is worth recalling that in December 2016, Justice Gabriel Kolawole had ordered release from detention of the venerable Sheikh Zakzaky and his wife, and providing of a decent an accommodation for the couple within 45 days.
Justice Kolawole had also awarded payment of 25 million Nigerian pounds each (totaling 50 million), to the IMN Leader and his wife for the violation of their rights by being held in unlawful custody.
The Sheikh needs immediate medical treatment, while his wife has been infected with the Coronavirus, yet there is no humanitarian sympathy or Islamic sentiments in the heart of Buhari.
This sadism should end, and Sheikh Zakzaky, who has even be classified as a political prisoner by even the US, must be released without any delay.