With the increasing clashes between the Nigerian Police and members of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria (IMN), aka Shiites, Justice Nkeonye Maha, of the Federal High Court in Abuja, Friday declared the Shiites a terrorist organization.
The Judgement has restrained any person or group of persons from participating in any form of activities involving or concerning the IMN under any name or platform in Nigeria.
IMN will be the second group to be proscribed after the order of The Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, that got proscribed last two years as it was also declared a terrorists organization owing to their modus-operandi.
However, a copy of the ex parte application marked FHC/ABJ/CS/876/2019, was filed in the name of the Attorney-General of the Federation.
It has been reported that Justice Maha granted the four prayers contained in the application shortly after the Solicitor-General of the Federation and Permanent Secretary, Federal Ministry of Justice, Mr Dayo Apata, argued the application on Friday.
The IMN was the sole respondent to the application but the group was not represented by a lawyer on Friday since it was an ex parte hearing.
