SAN FRANCISCO, March 03, (THEWILL) – A son of a retired Supreme Court
Justice and former Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Justice Muhammadu
Lawal Uwais (GCON), 79, has allegedly joined the notorious Islamic
terrorist group fighting in Syria and Iraq, the Islamic State of Iraq
and Syria (ISIS), according to sources with knowledge of the
development.
The sources familiar with the intelligence report presently being
reviewed by intelligence chiefs told THEWILL that the man (name
withheld) left Nigeria a few days back for Syria, with his two wives and
children to fight alongside ISIS, which presently controls large
territories in Iraq, Syria and Libya.
THEWILL gathered 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.
This is the second time a member of a Nigerian elitist family will be
linked to a foreign terrorist group. 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, is the
youngest son of Katsina born Alhaji Umaru Mutallab, a very wealthy
Nigerian banker and businessman, who had also served as a federal
Minister in the 70s.
Sources said Kaduna born Justice Uwais (GCON), who was CJN from 1995
-2006 and upon retirement served as Chairman of the committee that
reviewed Nigeria’s electoral laws in 2007, has been told about the
development.
The Nigerian military and its West African allies are presently
preoccupied with defeating the Boko Haram, a Nigerian terrorist group
responsible for thousands of brutal killings and deadly bombings in
northern Nigeria and border towns in Cameroun and Chad.
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