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A6 WORLD NEWS
Tuesday 12 July 2022
Nigeria jailbreak raises more questions over insecurity

By CHINEDU ASADU said Umar Abubakar, a
Associated Press spokesman for the agency,
ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Ni- admitting also that the jail-
gerian authorities on Mon- break was “a fallout of the
day admitted shortcom- security challenges” facing
ings in security at a jail in Nigeria.
the nation’s capital after For many Nigerians, Abuja
an attack that resulted in used to be the “shock-ab-
the escape of hundreds of sorber” where they run to
inmates last week. for safety when other parts
The jailbreak in the Kuje of Nigeria suffer attack,
area of Abuja led to the said Usman Ahmed, a taxi
escape of 879 inmates, in- driver. But recent security
cluding 64 members of the incidents such as a train at-
Islamic State West Africa tack that killed seven near-
Province extremist group by in late March and the
which claimed responsibil- Kuje jailbreak mean “no-
ity for the attack. The Islam- where to run to,” he said.
ic State-linked group is an Authorities blamed the train
offshoot of the Boko Haram attack and the jailbreak on
militant group which has extremist rebels that have
launched a decade-long waged an insurgency in
insurgency in northeast Ni- northeast Nigeria for more
geria. One of the escapees than a decade. Those reb-
from Kuje prison was arrest- els are now expanding their
ed on Monday, Nigeria’s Broken walls are seen at the Kuje maximum prison in Abuja after a rebel attack, Wednesday, July reach beyond the north-
National Drug Law Enforce- 6, 2022. east region to other parts of
ment Agency said, but with Associated Press Nigeria including the north-
at least 400 inmates still central region where Abuja
on the run, authorities are lamic extremists and on the attacked prison. tack a security installation is located, according to
expanding the search to armed groups mostly in the Even the Nigerian Presi- and get away with it?” the analysts.
neighboring states. country’s troubled north. dent Muhammadu Buhari Nigerian leader tweeted. “There are several terror-
Nigeria is synonymous with “Kuje (prison) is the most could not provide answers Incessant jailbreaks across ist cells already operating
jailbreaks which have be- fortified in the country,” to questions from citizens Nigeria have seen more in northcentral, northwest
come more rampant in said Rauf Aregbesola, Ni- about how the attackers than 3,000 inmates freed and northeastern parts of
recent years but it was the geria’s interior minister. “We overwhelmed the security since the start of 2021, me- Nigeria,” said Oluwaseyi
first time during that period had enough men to pro- forces on duty and about dia reports show. With the Adetayo, a former officer
that Abuja is being target- tect the facility but unfor- how safe they are in the latest in the nation’s capi- of the Nigerian secret po-
ed, leaving many shocked tunately they couldn’t hold country of 206 million peo- tal, the Nigerian Correc- lice Department of State
and in fear over how safe their position effectively for ple. Buhari had more ques- tional Service has begun an Services now working as a
they are as the West Afri- defense and that was the tions instead. appraisal to know “where security expert. “Many of
can nation battles a cycle reason for the breach,” the “How can terrorists orga- we have challenges and them are already being
of violence blamed on Is- minister said after visiting nize, have weapons, at- how to nip it in the bud,” activated.”q

U.S. rejects ‘Serbian world’ advocated by Serbian minister

could fuel tensions in the The U.S.-sponsored Day- Serbs are widely blamed
still-volatile region rocked ton peace agreement for triggering the bloody
by bloody wars in the 1990s. reached in 1995 ended a breakup of the former Yu-
“I dream of the unification bloody Bosnian war that goslavia in the 1990s under
of Serbs, just as all my an- killed more than 100,000 a nationalist call to create
cestors dreamed of it,” Ser- people and left millions “Greater Serbia,” the uni-
bia’s Interior Minister Alek- homeless. But it also left fication of all lands in the
sandar Vulin said. “I know Bosnia divided into a frag- Balkans where Serbs live
that one day it will be com- ile federation that links an with Serbia.
pleted, peacefully, without area run by Bosnian Serbs The “Serbian world” call is a
violence and conflict.” with another run by Bos- copy of Moscow’s “Russian
He was responding to a niaks and Croats. Bosnian world” demand that seeks
statement issued by the Serb leaders openly want the creation of another So-
U.S. Embassy in Belgrade to leave that unity govern- viet Union or a Russian Em-
on Monday, which said ment and join neighboring pire under Moscow’s con-
Serbia Defense Minister Aleksandar Vulin, right, walks behind
Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic in Belgrade, Serbia, that such “comments of Serbia. trol that would also include
Monday, April 23, 2018. the minister of the interior The U.S. Embassy was re- Ukraine.
Associated Press about the unification of acting to Vulin’s earlier Although formally seeking
all Serbs into one state are interview with the govern- European Union member-
By DUSAN STOJANOVIC the creation of a “Serbian not in accordance with the ment-controlled Politika ship, traditional Russian ally
Associated Press Writer world” that would unite all Dayton Agreement and daily in which he said “the Serbia has refused to join
BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — Serbs in the Balkans into contradict Serbia’s integra- only way for the Balkans Western sanctions against
A senior Serbian minister a single state, rejecting a tion into European struc- to remain stable is for the Russia for its invasion of
on Monday advocated U.S. warning that such calls tures.” Serbs to live in one state.” Ukraine.q