A
security expert has faulted the National Security for the alleged
recruitment of a Ghanaian by Islamic fundamentalist group Islamic State
(IS).
Reports are rife the terrorist group is indoctrinating and
recruiting more Ghanaian youth with the recent case of Mohammed Nazir
Nortei Alema, who sent a message to his family on August 16 that he has
joined the group in Iraq and Syria (ISIS).
The reports came as a
shock not only to the immediate family of the 25-year-old Kwame Nkrumah
University of Science and Technology (KNUST) graduate but also the
entire nation, forcing the National Security to launch an investigation
into the clandestine activities of terrorist groups in Ghana.
But
speaking to TV3’s Narkwor Kwabla on Thursday, August 27, Wing Commander
(retired) Pat Sorgbordzor laid the blame at the doorstep of the
state-security apparatus.
“I am not castigating our National
Security but if it was working properly like some of us have been
trained, there must be a constant flow of infomationr,” he said.
“They should have gotten wind that there is a recruiting agency or cell here.”
‘Not the mode’
He described as “not the mode” moves by the National Security to investigate the case after the "departure" of the recruit.
The
retired security chief was concerned, though, about the reasons that
will inform the Geography and Rural Development graduate to join ISIS.
“He
must have done that either from pecuniary reasons or he is becoming a
fundamentalist in Islam, which does not teach violence.
“So one
or two people going to Syria, Iraq to fight, if they are attracted by
money, then maybe they forget they are going to war.”
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