Boko Haram sect has given the Southerners three days to leave the North following President Goodluck Jonathan’s declaration of a state of emergency in four northern states. The group also threatened to confront soldiers deployed to the four states.

“We find it pertinent to state that soldiers will only kill innocent Muslims in the local government areas where the state of emergency was declared,” Abul Qaqa told journalists in a phone conference late Sunday.
“We would confront them squarely to protect our brothers.” Qaqa, who has spoken on behalf of the group numerous times in the past, also threatened southern Nigerians living in the north of the country just as it said Muslims should leave the south.

The group urged “our fellow Muslims to come back to the north because we have evidence that they would be attacked,” Abu Qaqa, a spokesman for the group, said yesterday in an e-mailed statement. “We are also giving three days ultimatum to the southerners living in northern Nigeria to move away.”

Boko Haram, which means “Western education is a sin,” says it’s fighting to establish sharia law in the North. Qaqa said the state of emergency declared on December 31 “was meant to attack Muslims and not to restore normalcy.” Jonathan declared the emergency in parts of Borno, Yobe, Plateau and Niger states and set up a special counter-terrorism unit within the armed forces after attacks left at least 43 people dead and 73 wounded in a Christmas Day bombing of a church near Abuja.

At least 72 people have been killed in fighting since December 22 between security forces and the militant group in the north-eastern city of Damaturu, according to the government. Boko Haram claimed responsibility for a suicide car-bomb attack on the United Nations building in the capital on August 26 that killed 25 people.

It has always been the opinion of Naija2day that the sect is pursuing a secret agenda other than the literal meaning of its name.
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