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Ghanaian ISIS recruit dies
A 25-year- old graduate of the KNUST who joined the swelling ranks of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) has reportedly died
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According to report by the Finder Newspaper, the final funeral rites, Adua in Islam, were held Sunday, March 21, 2016.
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Nazir was reportedly killed in battle in the Syrian city of Homs. Sheik Abdul Rahman, the former Chief Imam of London, who named Mr Nazir when he was born in London, led the Adua prayers held Osu, where the family of the deceased resides.
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Nazir Nortei Alema, a 25-year- old graduate of KNUST joined the swelling ranks of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS), a terrorist organisation in August 2015.
With a degree in Geography and Rural Development, he is one of the 10 suspected Muslim youth from Ghana who joined the terrorist grouping, whose stock-in-trade is public beheading of their opponents or those they regard as infidels, attracting a worldwide opprobrium.
The news of Ghana youth suspected to have joining ISIS activated alarm bells over a subtle recruitment drive for vulnerable Muslim youth in especially public tertiary institutions in the country.
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Nazir’s fateful trip to the training grounds of the so-called Islamic State, as they are referred to, started on August 2, 2015, soon after his completion of the mandatory National Service in Ghana, which he undertook at the Statistical Service.
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