OsunOriginal: State of emergency even when the governors and all elected officials are still there doing their job of funding Boko Haram guys. How will this be different from JTF patrolling the states other than more soldiers on the road? I am still wondering how this will help the situation.

Billyonaire: Why dont you just go ahead and suggest the option that has not been employed ? For me, State of Emergency and a shoot at sight order should be the order. They should use their goats, rams, cats, and dogs as target practice.

shymexx: This is more of a political statement than anything else.

I believe a mini-martial law has been effected in those states for some time now, and nothing has changed. It's still the same thing. And a full martial law without rendering the governors "impotent" is just going to end up the same way.

You lot need to thread carefully before the BH thing consumes the whole country.

kkkp:

kkkp:

Billyonaire: Why dont you just go ahead and suggest the option that has not been employed ? For me, State of Emergency and a shoot at sight order should be the order. They should use their goats, rams, cats, and dogs as target practice.

nuclearboy: Sorry but this is NOT a good move

I expected an INFORMAL STATE OF EMERGENCY - move in the big guns (if you want the entire Army, Navy and Air Force) all you want but don't make it official. Do NOT announce it.

What would that have cost? But ACN/CPC and the idiotic Northern Elders Forum said NO, so he had to 'prove himself", right?

NOW, all Boko Haram has to do is go someplace else and attack twice and everyone will scream "state of emergency" until those who hate him start to mock him with that as well. And if the boko haramists have any brains, that's what they will do. Just make random attacks in Rivers, Lagos and Abuja and effectively, Nigeria is an urban jungle, thanks to a good decision being implemented badly.

And if he backs down now or later from declaring states of emergencies all over, again the ridicule starts!

As I see it, this will end with the entire country becoming like as in Israel, in a permanent State of emergency.And only BH will laugh because you just made them bigger

ddippset: yes i agree with you. it's more of a political statement. it was nevertheless a very bold move. i have never been happier with the president than now.

idnoble135: Highly necessary. Infact, its a decision that should have been taken a long time ago. If the state of emergence spreads on in to more northern states, all there boko issue and fanatical craze would end fast. And i think this makes it formal to boko haram that they are in for a showdown with the military. I would love to see that their commander hiding his face in shame like other failed terrorists.