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(CNSNews.com) – Acknowledging that the state has lost control over some territory to radical Islamists, Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan on Tuesday declared a state of emergency in three northern states.
“What we are facing is not just militancy or criminality, but a rebellion and insurgency by terrorist groups which pose a very serious threat to national unity and territorial integrity,” the leader of Africa’s most populous country said in a televised announcement.
“Already, some northern parts of Borno state have been taken over by groups whose allegiance is to different flags and ideologies,” he said.
“These terrorists and insurgents seem determined to establish control and authority over parts of our beloved nation and to progressively overwhelm the rest of the country. In many places, they have destroyed the Nigerian flag and other symbols of state authority and in their place, hoisted strange flags suggesting the exercise of alternative sovereignty.”
Jonathan declared an emergency in Borno, a state wedged into Nigeria’s north-eastern corner bordering Cameroon, Niger and Chad; and in two neighboring states, Yobe and Adamawa.