The Islamic Movement in Nigeria, IMN has denied a report circulating among security agencies that it is planning terrorist attacks in collaboration with insurgent group, Boko Haram.
In a statement issued by its Head of Media, Ibrahim Musa, the IMN described the report as the handiwork of desperate security agencies.
The IMN said that it could not be collaborating with Boko Haram having been victims of the insurgents' attacks themselves.
"We at this moment state categorically that there are no connections or any links whatsoever between the Islamic Movement in Nigeria and Boko Haram.
"IMN in the first place is not the creation of any foreign security agencies, which is common with all the various terrorist groups globally.
" It was borne out of the desire of Muslims to live according to the teachings of Islam.
"IMN has been around at least in Nigeria for almost four decades now, with its various educational programmes now commonly known in many Nigerian villages, towns, and cities and with all its activities peacefully and transparently conducted.
"It is the same so-called Boko Haram that bombed our brothers and sisters during an Ashura procession in Potiskum, Yobe state in 2014, and also sent suicide bombers to the Arba’een trek along Kano –Zaria highway killing many innocent people, including women and children. It beats any sane imagination that IMN will now turn to the same group in what the intelligence agents term "strategic alliance."
The IMN went further to reject attempts to link it with terrorism and militant activities.
"Sheikh Ibraheem Zakzaky, our revered leader, has said it many times without number that: 'Our weapon is positive reasoning, truth and good conduct. Guns are for the reckless and foolhardy only. We have been conducting our affairs peacefully, calling people to the truth for the last 36 years. So you cannot come overnight and attribute violence to us that we now resort to killing people. This is impossible. We save lives not kill them,” the statement said.
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