-:Undertaker:-
14-05-2013, 10:47 PM
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/nigeria/10057720/Nigeria-declares-state-of-emergency-in-three-states.html
Nigeria declares state of emergency in three states
Nigeria has declared a "state of emergency" in three states where the Islamist group Boko Haram is rife.
http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/02562/nigeria-jonathan_2562988b.jpg
Goodluck Jonathan as he declared state of emergency in the states of Yobe, Borno and Adamawa
President Goodluck Jonathan declared the states of emergency in Borno, Yobe and Adamawa states, the three hardest hit by the insurgency.
He said more troops would "immediately" be deployed to the areas.
Mr Jonathan made a similar move in January last year following a spate of Boko Haram attacks, but in that case the decree only applied to specific local government areas in four states.
In seeking to impose the measure across a whole state, Jonathan must first secure the approval of Nigerian legislators, which he pledged to do.
The enhanced powers that come with the measure are unclear.
When former President Olusegun Obasanjo invoked the measure twice in 2004 and 2006, he removed democratically elected governors and installed appointed administrators to manage the states, both former military officers.
Mr Jonathan vowed that he would not employ that measure.
"The governors and other political office holders in the affected states will continue to discharge their constitutional responsibilities," he said.
The Boko Haram insurgency, which the group says is aimed at creating an Islamic state in the country's mainly Muslim north, has cost some 3,600 lives since 2009, including killings by the security forces.
But a series of recent brazen attacks have raised concerns that insurgents have become emboldened, with Jonathan saying that the latest violence amounted to "a declaration of war".
Another failing African state, and another example of how having completely different cultures under the same political + legal system (multiculturalism) doesn't work. The likelyhood is of course that Nigeria will end up splitting down the middle much like the Sudan did (Islamic north, Christian south) along with fracturing in the south where there are a few Kingdoms who wish to be independent but whom the central government refuse to grant independence to.
Interesting however that western foreign policy towards these matters always tends to be that these false-nations should be kept together at all costs - when the reality shows that when they are broken down into true nations peace follows. Think Yugoslavia for example.
Thoughts? agree with me or not?
Nigeria declares state of emergency in three states
Nigeria has declared a "state of emergency" in three states where the Islamist group Boko Haram is rife.
http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/02562/nigeria-jonathan_2562988b.jpg
Goodluck Jonathan as he declared state of emergency in the states of Yobe, Borno and Adamawa
President Goodluck Jonathan declared the states of emergency in Borno, Yobe and Adamawa states, the three hardest hit by the insurgency.
He said more troops would "immediately" be deployed to the areas.
Mr Jonathan made a similar move in January last year following a spate of Boko Haram attacks, but in that case the decree only applied to specific local government areas in four states.
In seeking to impose the measure across a whole state, Jonathan must first secure the approval of Nigerian legislators, which he pledged to do.
The enhanced powers that come with the measure are unclear.
When former President Olusegun Obasanjo invoked the measure twice in 2004 and 2006, he removed democratically elected governors and installed appointed administrators to manage the states, both former military officers.
Mr Jonathan vowed that he would not employ that measure.
"The governors and other political office holders in the affected states will continue to discharge their constitutional responsibilities," he said.
The Boko Haram insurgency, which the group says is aimed at creating an Islamic state in the country's mainly Muslim north, has cost some 3,600 lives since 2009, including killings by the security forces.
But a series of recent brazen attacks have raised concerns that insurgents have become emboldened, with Jonathan saying that the latest violence amounted to "a declaration of war".
Another failing African state, and another example of how having completely different cultures under the same political + legal system (multiculturalism) doesn't work. The likelyhood is of course that Nigeria will end up splitting down the middle much like the Sudan did (Islamic north, Christian south) along with fracturing in the south where there are a few Kingdoms who wish to be independent but whom the central government refuse to grant independence to.
Interesting however that western foreign policy towards these matters always tends to be that these false-nations should be kept together at all costs - when the reality shows that when they are broken down into true nations peace follows. Think Yugoslavia for example.
Thoughts? agree with me or not?