Security Analyst, Dr. Kwesi Aning has said the disclosure by the Minority in Parliament of Ghanaian migrants joining the dreadful terrorist group — the Islamic State — in Libya is no news.
At least 100 Ghanaians joined the deadly terrorist group and according to the Minority the figures were picked from a report from the Libyan government through its Attorney General.
Speaking at a press conference in Parliament House on Tuesday, the Minority spokesperson on Foreign Affairs, Mr Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa tasked the government to collaborate with its Libyan counterpart to address the issue before it escalates to Ghana.
Related: Ghana is second highest recruit contributor to ISIS – Okudzeto
According to him, the Ghanaian converts are “frontline fighters” for ISIS. “What is more unnerving; the special enquiry found that kidnappings of expatriates were mostly carried out by Islamic State foreign fighters from Ghana, Turkey and Tunisia,” he said.
Read also: Ablakwa’s ISIS claims mischievous – Majority
But in a reaction in a radio personality profile interview on Accra based Starr FM on Wednesday, Dr. Aning who is also the Director, Faculty of Academic Affairs and Research at Kofi Annan International Peacekeeping Training Centre (KAIPTC) said: “All this talk about fifty to one hundred Ghanaians who have joined ISIS, that is eighteen months old rubbish.”
“I have gotten so irritated the whole of today when people call me [to have my oppinon on the minority’s claims]…I started telling my governing board about this eighteen months ago that there’s an army on the Sahara three thousand five hundred strong…being paid a $1500 to $3000 every month to come as foreign terrorist fighters and undermine states.
“When I hear that a member of parliament, parliamentarians are making noise, it raises fundamental questions…,” he said in the interview with Bola Ray on his Starr Chart programme.
Source: Daily Graphic
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18 months old news so what?? r those Ghanaians still in ISIS or not??r they still recruiting Ghanaians?Mr. Anning claims he knew about it and kept quiet about it!!
Our parliamentarians instead of sitting down to read and research spend their mornings on FM radio stations debating ***barred word*** issues and engaging in political propaganda. You see your size now?
Shame on you.
When will these 'boys' stop throwing dust into the eyes of Ghanaians. Ablakwa think oo think
THIS ABLAKWA GUY IS SO FUULISHH.
YOU GO AND READ RUBBISH AND INTERNET AND COME SPEAK LIKE SOME SERIOUS INTELLIGENCE PRO.
When babies with sharp teeth speaks, they do not think about its relevance, neither do they think of exposing their incompetence in the past. You don't. make noise and think you are being responsible opposition. Being dumb is even more useful than this ***barred word*** noises the minority is making. Saajowaaa
I don't know why that Ablakwah guy always want his voice heard? They were in power for 8yrs and nothing better came out of the 8yrs and now someone is trying to help every Ghanaians and Ablakwah is trying to distruct the attention of the government. What kind of BS is that? Enough of your BS #attention seeker Ablakwa#
18 MONTHS AGO, THE NDC WAS THE RULING PARTY IN GHANA, AND NOTHING WAS SAID ABOUT THOSE GHANAIAN TERRORISTS, WHY NOW? YOU HYPOCRATE BASBRADS!!!!!!!