ISIS takes recruitment drive to Ghanaian universities

Ghanaian authorities have revealed that Islamic States (ISIS) has its targets on numerous Ghanaian universities as potential recruitment sites.

Speaking to Journalists in the country, Yaw Donkor, national security coordinator, said: “The National Security has identified suspected institutions where agents and agencies of the terrorist group targeted and recruited unsuspecting Ghanaians”.

He added that the suspected institutions were mainly tertiary institutions where students were drafted into social media forums where radical discourse took place, with a view to indoctrinating members for ease of recruitment.

Donkor confirmed the recruitment of two Ghanaians by the terrorist group to state media, urging journalists to be circumspect in reporting.

“[As] per the records of the National Security, Nazir Nortei Alema, a 25-year-old graduate of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), and another person, whom he identified only as Rafiq, had joined the group,” Ghanaian newspaper, Graphic Online, quote Donkor to have said.

“I am not trying to say that if there is a problem, don’t talk about it; what I’m saying is that we must not do it in such a way as to create panic.”

He said the country is aware that the ISIS had a training base in Niger where recruits were trained as foreign terrorist instructors, adding that those who joined the ISIS went through Burkina Faso or Nigeria.

Intimating the country on the lucrative offers made by the Islamist sect, Donkor said” “If international efforts to suppress the ISIS does not work, then Ghana must be worried.”