Ex-CJN’s son killed in US attack against ISIS

Ibrahim Uwais, son of a former Chief Justice of the Federation (CJN), Mohammed Uwais, has been reported killed by a US airstrike on a town near Rutba in the Anbar desert.

The young Uwais had left Nigeria in 2015 with his family in a surprise move to join the Islamic terror group, Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS)

According to reports, a Pentagon official confirmed that he was one of those confirmed killed in the strike which targeted a top ISIS leader.

Reports also say one of his wives has called the CJN to inform the family of Ibrahim’s passing away at the age of 42.

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His departure from Nigeria had caused a lot of clamor in the country, as his father was said to have informed security agencies of his son’s tendencies, but the agencies failed to act.

This led to investigations to uncover the identities of Nigerians, who might have joined the terrorist group.
Ibrahim, left Nigeria early 2015 to join ISIS in a surprise move, because he was said to have openly condemned Boko
Haram for the “damage” they were doing to Islam.

He had two wives and four children at the time he left the country.

While his elder wife was the head of a private school in Abuja, the younger worked with the Debt Management Office (DMO). Before embarking on the trip to Iraq via Turkey, he reportedly told his wives that they were free to return to their parents.

But both of them said they would go with him and they took all their children with them.

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