Ghanaian Muslim joins ISIS

Nazir Alema 

Nazir Alema 25 , a university graduate from Accra, told his parents he was travelling to Prestea, a mining town in the country’s west but he travelled to an Islamic State (IS) training camp.

He is, so far, the first known recruit from the West African nation to join the militant group.

“Two weeks later on Aug. 16, we got a message on social media from him saying he was at a training ground to join the IS group in an unknown country,” his brother, Kabiru Alema said.

Alema said his brother had not expressed any particular interest in radical Islam.

Alema quoted his brother as saying that by joining Islamic State he was obeying a call from Allah to abandon what he called `the corrupt system’.

“He said he loves us so much and that we should forgive him for not making his intentions known to us from the beginning,” Alema said.

The Ghanaian government is yet to make an official statement.
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