According to report CIA, were
last night working frantically to track the whereabouts of a son of the former
Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Muhammadu Lawal Uwais who was said to have
joined the deadly Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS).
The 41-year old son of the former CJN left home about a month ago with his two wives and has not been seen since.
The 41-year old son of the former CJN left home about a month ago with his two wives and has not been seen since.
One of the wives a school
principal, and the other also a school administrator both left with their
husband without telling their parents.
One of the wives reportedly
told her parents she was going to Dubai for two weeks with her husband. Neither
the former CJN nor the parents of one of the wives has heard from them since.
Report had already gone
viral, Uwais, who also spearheaded Nigeria’s electoral reforms, said that he
had no comment on the matter. “I don’t want to comment on hearsay,” the former
CJN said.
The San Francisco-based
news medium had reported that the son of the retired judge, whose name it did
not disclose, had joined ISIS after moving from Nigeria with his two wives and
children in order to help fight alongside ISIS, which presently controls large
territories in Iraq, Syria and Libya. The medium said that the intelligence
report came from Saudi Arabia, one of the over 50 countries alongside the
United Nations that has designated ISIS as a terrorist organization.
If proven to be true, this
would be the second time a member of a Nigerian elitist family would be linked
to a foreign terrorist group. The first was the notorious underwear bomber,
Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, a member of Al-Qaeda, who is presently serving a
life sentence without parole in the United States, who is the youngest son of
Katsina-born Alhaji Umaru Mutallab, a wealthy Nigerian banker and businessman,
who had also served as a federal minister in the 70s.
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