dawna. christine one bill welcome to news africa i'm glad you're in nigeria has seen a week off tension off the violence between person police and shia muslim protest is the shia group involved says' at least 20 off its members have been killed the clashes have focused around the parliament building in the capital. members of the group have been demanding the release off a nida who's been held in prison since 2015 baths despise a court order to release him shia muslims for a minority in nigeria about 2 percent of the population but the upsurge in violence in recent days is provoking fia's the situation could further deteriorate. a funeral procession to 6 demonstrates his shield and monday the day scame when police opened fire on members of the shia group the islamic movement in the geria were taking part in what was reported to be a peaceful march in the capital of bootjack graham suliman lost his son for him it died as a hero and a martyr. i'm very sad that you know just in security trained