Military Chiefs Consider Options on "State of Emergency" in Troubled State

As the May deadline for the expiration of the emergency rule imposed on Adamawa, Borno and Yobe States, draws near, service chiefs have begun exploring the options of ending the insurgency in the North-east.

THISDAY gathered yesterday that although the service chiefs were favourably disposed to extending the emergency rule to finally rout Boko Haram insurgents in the zone, they were considering other options in view of the gathering opposition from Northern leaders to the extension of  the state of emergency on the three states which President Goodluck Jonathan first imposed on the states in May 14, 2013.

At the expiration of the first six-month stanza of the state of emergency imposed on the states, the president had sought and got the approval of the National Assembly to extend it for another six months last November.
THISDAY findings within the security circle showed that the military chiefs, at the meeting of the security council with the president on Friday would argue for the renewal of the emergency rule on the states.

But it was learnt that they were canvassing for lifting of the state of emergency on Adamawa State, where attacks by the insurgents were not as intense as in Borno and Yobe States.

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