Boko Haram has established its own government in Gwoza, a Nigerian city it captured three weeks ago by killing perhaps 1,000 residents and overcoming the Nigerian military, a legislator displaced from his home there has confirmed.
The Defense Headquarters of Nigeria has Tweeted denials of Boko Haram's claim of an "Islamic Caliphate" in Gwoza, but Peter Biye-Gumta, representative of the Chibok/Damboa/Gwoza Federal Constituency of Borno State, confirmed reports of the caliphate in the area that had been mostly Christian.
"He confirmed to me that his whole area has been totally overrun and that Boko Haram now has set up a government, their own government in those areas," Adeniyi Ojutiku, an expert in Nigerian relations, told Baptist Press....