Jailed Members Of IM Dispersed To Various Nigerian Prisons. By our correspondent

Those taken to Makurdi are Al-Mustapha Umar Gidan Haka, Ahmad Abdullahi, Zayyanu Usman Illela, Bello Aliyu Kanwuri and Hussaini Buba. At Abakaliki are Usman Bello Abubakar, Musa Muhajir, Anas Garba Nura and Al-Kali Qasim, while at Nsuka are Malam Kabiru Umar, Muhammad Sani, Jamilu Abdul Qadir, Musa Abdullahi and Zayyanu Aliy.

So far no official statement has been issued either by the prisons authorities or the state government on this action.

Meanwhile the head of the Sokoto Center of the Islamic Movement, Malam Qaseem Umar is still left in Sokoto with other members that include those that are yet to be convicted whose charges differ from the charges of those that have already been convicted.

It would be recalled that the Islamic Movement Counsel has appealed further after judgment had been passed; dispersing the jailed members of the prison to various prisons around the country is seen by some observers as a deliberate attempt at creating constraints for the appellant when the appeal case resumes.

Also, reports have shown that the various prisons they have been taken to have barred them from receiving visitors and making other contacts. Members of the Islamic Movement in Imo that visited those taken to Owerri were detained for some hours before they were later released and warned never to come close to the prison again.

The head of the Kaduna Center of the Islamic Movement, Malam Mukhtar Sahabi has during the post-Friday prayer sermon condemned the persecutions perpetrated by Alu Magatakarda Wammakko in Sokoto describing him as a tyrant and oppressor that is very close to facing the wrath of God Almighty. Hundreds of those present at the sermon joined in praying for the quick wrath of God Almighty to befall Wammakko.