Reports Suggest Nigeria’s Ex-Chief Justice’ Son May Have Joined ISIS

Reports published by The Will, a United States online news medium
yesterday has suggested that,   a former Chief Justice of Nigeria’s son may
have joined the dreaded ISIS group.

According to the report, 41-year old Mohammed Uwais’ Son left
the country about a month ago with his two wives and children and nothing has
been heard from them ever since then. One of the wives never told her parents
where she was going with her husband, while the other informed her parents that
she was going on a 2-week holiday with her husband in Dubai. The former chief
of Justice also says he is yet to hear from his son and his family.

When asked to comment on the foreign publication, he says he
will not be interested on commenting on hearsays. 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.  Read the
full report by Vanguard below.

Security agents 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.

One of the wives a school principal, and the other also a
school administrator both left with their husband without telling their
parents.

Vanguard gathered that 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.

Contacted for his comments, the jurist told Vanguard he had
no comments to make on the development.

In a telephone conversation with Vanguard in Abuja, the respected
jurist, who was Nigeria’s Chief Justice between 1995 and 2006, neither
confirmed nor denied the report published by a United States online medium, The
Will, on March 4, 2015.

Reminded that the 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.

Sources said that Justice Uwais had been told about the
development.

The Nigerian military and its West African allies are
presently pre-occupied 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 Cameroon and Chad.