However, they cannot take possession of public amenities or disrupt social services and commercial activities in the State. In addition, any march or procession can be undertaken only with the prior awareness of, and security of the police to preclude the interruption of law and order (Garba, 2015)
However, they have asserted that the Shiites want to be a state within a state and the military cannot allow them to form a parallel government within the country (Naij, 2015). Another aspect that might project hostility in the future is the fact that Zaria, the region where the attack took place, is roughly 400 miles from Maiduguri, the main center of the Borno state as well as the center of operations for Boko Haram, which is a Sunni Group involved in terrorism It is believed that the nation's military reaction to a minor operation from the larger counter-insurgency operation propelled President Buhari's ascension towards the presidency (Martel, 2015)
Zakzaky's manifold social calls and engagement to the Iranian Islamic republic have fortified his movement's financial backing. However, at the same time, it increased tensions with Sunni sects (Okakwu, 2016)
Implications to International Peace and Security The aforementioned prehistoric religious division is facilitating in fueling a renaissance of conflicts in the Middle East and Muslim nations. Skirmishes and battles between Sunni and Shia forces have nourished and cultivated a Syrian civil war that portends to alter the map of the Middle East, prompted violence that is rupturing Iraq, and broadened splits in a number of overwrought Gulf nations (Perry, 2010)
In turn, this has drawn the bordering nations as well as world powers into the conflict. The increase and progression of jihadist groups, which also includes the Islamic State, has added another party into the equation (Rodgers et al
Shiite Islamic Sect in Nigeria History, Culture, Socio-Politics of the Shiite Islamic Sect in Nigeria Subsequent to the Islamic revolution that took place in 1979, the promotion of Khomeinism by Iran has been one of its foreign policy implements in the Muslim world (Akhavi, 1983). Irrespective of the massive topographical and cultural detachment of Nigeria from Iran, there is no other expanse distanced from the Middle East, where this particular philosophy and dogma has a superior influence than in the northern region of Nigeria (Soares, 2009)
The implication of this is that there will be an adverse influence, which will try to disrupt international peace and security. In the recent number of years, this divide between the Sunnis and Shiites has come to be the prevalent fault line in the fight for supremacy in the Middle East and beyond (Trofimov, 2015)
The Shi'a Muslim community in Nigeria, which is pro-Iranian, fundamentally did not exist about three decades ago. However, in the present day, this community makes up approximately 5% of the considerable 80 million Muslims in the state of Nigeria (Zenn, 2013)