Nigeria: How Rift Between Govt, North East States Aid Insurgency

30 May 2014

A special report released Thursday by Reuters has revealed how the political differences between the leadership at the federal level and those of the states worst hit by the insurgency have helped to inflame the attacks in the North-east.

Titled "The Rift Behind Nigeria's Torment", the report which identified the three factors of politics; corruption and administrative ineptitude for the increased cases of terrorism in the North-east. noted that the fact that President Goodluck Jonathan and the governors of the affected states do not belong to the same political party has inadvertently helped to stoke the fire of insurgency in the North-east part of the country.

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