{"id":427296,"date":"2017-10-10T15:45:26","date_gmt":"2017-10-10T15:45:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2017\/10\/10\/100-ghanaians-join-isis-minority\/"},"modified":"2017-10-10T15:45:26","modified_gmt":"2017-10-10T15:45:26","slug":"100-ghanaians-join-isis-minority","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/10\/10\/100-ghanaians-join-isis-minority\/","title":{"rendered":"100 Ghanaians join ISIS \u2013 Minority"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>At least 100 Ghanaian migrants have joined the deadly terrorist group \u2013 the Islamic State \u2013 in Libya.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Minority in Ghana\u2019s parliament, the figures were picked from a report from the Libyan government through its attorney general.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to the media Tuesday in Parliament, the Minority spokesperson on Foreign Affairs Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa tasked the government to collaborate with its Libyan counterpart to address the issue before it escalates to Ghana.<\/p>\n<p>He said the Ghanaian converts are \u201cfrontline fighters\u201d for ISIS, adding the West African country has been paired in same category as Senegal, Gambia, Somalia, Chad, Niger, Eritrea and Mali.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat 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.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis dreadful report highlights of which was presented to a packed room of international journalists a few days ago must necessarily trigger a number of immediate actions from our government \u2013 actions which all Ghanaians must demand in our collective national interest,\u201d Mr. Ablakwa told the media.<\/p>\n<p>The Minority is therefore calling on the Nana Akufo-Addo-led government to \u201cpublicly react to this enquiry by the Libyan attorney general\u2019s office due to its grave ramifications to Ghana\u2019s image.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He added: \u201cGovernment must provide the needed assurances to Ghanaians and our international security partners that this matter is receiving very high level attention.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The government is yet to respond to the issue.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: Ghana\/Starrfmonline.com\/103.5FM<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"bsac bsac-clearfix bsac-post-bottom bsac-float-center bsac-align-center bsac-column-1\">\n<div id=\"bsac-268370-1332902604\" class=\"bsac-container bsac-type-image \" itemscope=\"\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/WPAdBlock\" data-adid=\"268370\" data-type=\"image\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"bsac-image\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/starrwoman_posts.jpg\" alt=\"Starr Woman \u2013 Inside Posts\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a style=\"display:none\" rel=\"follow\" href=\"http:\/\/megatheme.ir\/\" title=\"\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633\">\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At least 100 Ghanaian migrants have joined the deadly terrorist group \u2013 the Islamic State \u2013 in Libya. According to the Minority in Ghana\u2019s parliament, the figures were picked from a report from the Libyan government through its attorney general. Speaking to the media Tuesday in Parliament, the Minority spokesperson on Foreign Affairs Samuel Okudzeto [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-427296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-world"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>100 Ghanaians join ISIS \u2013 Minority - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/10\/10\/100-ghanaians-join-isis-minority\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"100 Ghanaians join ISIS \u2013 Minority - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"At least 100 Ghanaian migrants have joined the deadly terrorist group \u2013 the Islamic State \u2013 in Libya. 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