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More Than 700 Inmates Escape During Attack On Nigerian Prison

Written by NewsOne Staff on September 8, 2010 3:43 pm

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Authorities were searching for more than 700 inmates Wednesday who escaped after gunmen attacked a prison in northern Nigeria, police said.

A radical Muslim sect used assault rifles to launch a coordinated sunset raid on a prison in northern Nigeria, freeing more than 100 followers and raising new fears about violence in the oil-rich nation just months before elections.

The attack Tuesday night by the Boko Haram sect left the prison in ruins and showed the group had access to the sophisticated weapons it needed to overpower prison guards. Now the group seeking to impose strict Islamic law on Nigeria may want to take on the government directly, potentially bring a new wave of violence to Africa’s most populous nation.

The Nigerian government is “standing flat-footed. They’re on the defensive,” said Mark Schroeder, the director of sub-Saharan Africa analysis for STRATFOR, a private security think tank based in Austin, Texas.

The attackers went cell by cell at the prison in Bauchi, breaking open locks and setting fire to part of the prison before escaping during the confusion with more than 750 inmates, said Bauchi state police commissioner Danlami Yar’Adua.

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Five people – a soldier, a police officer, two prison guards and a civilian – died in the attack and six others remain in critical condition.

Members of Boko Haram – which means “Western education is sacrilege” in the local Hausa language – rioted and attacked police stations and private homes in July 2009, triggering a violent police and military crackdown during which more than 700 people died. More than 120 followers arrested in the wake of the attacks last year were being held at the Bauchi prison pending trial.

Read entire article at HuffingtonPost.com

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    I was wondering wtf was up with my ‘junk mail’ filter, suddenly having over 700 solicitations for bank account deposits that will net me $1million, just for letting them use my account, and emails from some woman claiming to be orphaned, saying her Dr. told her she needs $1,000 for a kidney beans transplant.

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    religion huh…….smh

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    lol @ odoggz. They are on here too. “Looking for love.” When one IM me…I’m going to bring this article up to them!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/juan_gotti/ juan_gotti

    Prepare to get bombarded with an additional 700+ emails a day lol

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  • http://www.blackplanet.com/carlacampbell3/ carlacampbell3

    Ive been recieving lots of those emails too but who in their right mind is going to send their details to a stranger over the internet? unless you a kid or just plain dumb. Its a very slim chance for a nigerian to rob anyone’s bank account, Ive been hearing all these rumours for years and even been getting emails from them too.

    But guess what? money was stolen from my bank account twice and it was’nt nigerian, it was europeans that I didnt even met. they hacked into my two bank accounts and stole large sums and transfer it to their agent in europe.

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    @odoggz and all.. I no nigeria have name about spaming and scamming.. But i want u 2 kw dat not all nigerians do dat.. ok.. In nigeria we have our own way of doing things which is different 4rm rest of world. If u come closer u’ll c wat i’m talking about. I’m a gud and patroitic nigeria and i will stand and watch anybody destroy dat great name NIGERIA. Get it into senses.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/byne12/ byne12

    @odoggz and all.. I know nigeria have name about spaming and scamming.. But i want u 2 kw dat not all nigerians do dat.. ok.. In nigeria we have our own way of doing things which is different 4rm rest of world. If u come closer u’ll c wat i’m talking about. I’m a gud and patroitic nigeria and i will stand and watch anybody destroy dat great name NIGERIA. Get it into senses.

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    Wtf is wrong with you imates. How dare you talk bad against someone else’ country. Have you ever asked yourselves what is done in there country that is never practiced in the western country? Crime is crime and every country is prone to it. So save me those crap BS and let God judge his people not you PIGS!!!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/AfricanSpeech/ AfricanSpeech

    Black folks seem to believe whatever white folks tell them about other black folks…

    Whites have been scamming for centuries and crashed america’s economy and folks are still worried about nigerians?

    I bet yall don’t know that Eastern European gans are running the big fraud games across the world with phishing and malware, ATM card cloning, skimming, identity theft and key-sniffing which is more of a bigger threat to america and europe…

    Ok… Talk about misplaced priorities, LOL…

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/AfricanSpeech/ AfricanSpeech

    I remember when a Nigerian bought Gatwick Airport and the headline was “Black man buys Gatwick Airport”

    Then when it’s bad news about a black person, it reverts to “Nigerian doing bad things”

    LOL…

    Black folks have incorporated white behaviours without even realizing it…

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  • http://www.blackplanet.com/chocaulit/ chocaulit

    europeans are huge scammers, tht is true but the nigerians are the ones we see every day on the net in our faces begging for your love ,(your money).

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    Why does Nigeria even bother to have jails when people can buy their way out of any crime – including murder/attempted murder. There is so much corruption and unjustified kidnappings and murders that the only way to clean up the country would be to turn it into a penal colony.

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