Tuesday, 3 January 2012

Boko Haram Gives Southerners 3-Day Ultimatum To Leave Northern Nigeria

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The dreaded Boko Haram Islamic sect has asked all Southerners living in the North to leave the region within three days or face the consequences. It also asked all Hausa people living in the Southern part of Nigeria to leave the area since there is going to be

a reprisal attack on them as a result of the sect's next moves.

The group, while asking all Christians to vacate the North and threatening to confront the security agencies, further said the State of Emergency issued in some Northern parts of the country would only result in the killing of innocent people since the actual members of the group are difficult to know.

Spokesman of the sect, Abul Qaqa, disclosed that Christians in the North had only three days to leave the area.

"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. We would confront them squarely to protect our brothers.

"We also wish to call on our fellow Muslims to come back to the North because we have evidence that they would be attacked. We are also giving a three-day ultimatum to the Southerners living in the Northern part of Nigeria to move away," Qaqa said in Hausa language.