Sheikh Ibrahim El-Zakzaky, the leader of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria (IMN) and his wife, Zeenat, are perfecting plans to travel abroad for another medical trip, Herald Nigeria has learnt.
It was also gathered that El-Zakzak will again be accompanied by security operatives.
A source within the IMN, who confided in TheNation, said the Department of State Services (DSS) is preventing El-Zakzaky’s family members and close associate from visiting, adding that they have since collected their phones.
El-Zakzaky and wife were taken to the DSS facility in Kaduna on arrival aboard an Ethiopian Airline flight E 9-11 by noon on August 16, at the Nnamdi Azikwe International Airport, Abuja.
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The source said: “You know that El-Zakzaky and his wife were immediately taken to Kaduna facility of the DSS immediately they arrived in the country from their medical trip.
“They collected their phones. Now his people want to visit him, but the security operatives are preventing them from visiting.
“Till now, nobody is allowed to visit him. And immediately he and the wife left for India, the security operatives moved some of his personal properties from his home in Kaduna. I learnt they are planning to take him out for another medical trip. But the day is not made known yet.”