The Federal Government has discovered that several of most
recent recruits of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) are evident on
social media, just as FG warned parents to monitor their wards closely,
especially those who are schooling abroad, reports ITRealms.
The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed
who disclosed this to ITRealms, urged
parents and guardians to monitor the activities of their children and wards in
order to prevent them from being recruited by ISIS, which has now resorted to
targeting vulnerable individuals, including foreign students, using financial
inducements via online platforms to recruit them into the terrorist
organisation.
Mohammed cited the recent recruitment into ISIS of 27
medical students of the University of Medical Sciences and Technology (UMST) in
Sudan as an example of the new strategy being used by the organisation to
recruit more members.
The Minister, quoting a report received by the Nigerian
Intelligence Community, said 22 of the 27 students, who travelled to Syria to
join ISIS, are Britons.
''According to the report, the students were recruited by
one Mohammed Fakhri Al-khabbas, a former UMST student from Middlesborough,
United Kingdom. Many of the students are children of reputable doctors in the
UK. Their Social Media accounts also revealed them as praising Jihadists and
championing ISIS' cause,'' he said.
Alhaji Mohammed therefore appealed to Nigerians, especially
those who have children and wards in foreign academic institutions, to pay more
attention to their activities, while urging schools across the country to
enlighten their students on the new ISIS' recruitment strategy.
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