Terrorism that has escalated to the height of national concern, again took centre stage on July 5, 2022. Terrorists reportedly invaded the Kuje Medium Security Custodial Centre, where tens of arrested terrorists were being held. They took away their terrorist colleagues and freed the other prisoners. There was limited resistance to the terrorists as they were reported to have left without a fight back from the prison\u2019s security. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
the Islamic\nState West Africa Province (ISWAP) has claimed responsibility for the jail\nbreak and springing out of their colleagues. While it is reported that some of\nthe other non-terrorist inmates of the prison have either been recaptured or\nhave returned voluntarily, the terrorists appear to have re-joined their\ncolleagues and are roaming free and ready to attack, perhaps a new target. On\nthe same day of the attack on Kuje Custodial Centre, the advance security\nconvoy of President Muhammadu Buhari heading to his Daura, Katsina State hometown\nfor the Eid-el-Kabir holiday, was attacked. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
It will be\nrecalled that terrorists who attacked and abducted passengers of the\nAbuja-Kaduna train in March 2022, made a video recording where they had\ninitially stated that they were not after money and that the government knew\nwhat they wanted. Later on, their demand was said to be the release of their commanders\nwho were in prison custody, in exchange for the release of the abducted\npassengers. The terrorists then went on to release 11 abductees. The bargain\nthat led to this was unclear. However, after the Kuje jail break, the abductors\ncoincidentally became willing to release more of the abducted passengers in\nexchange for the payment of ransom and indeed, released several more abductees\nwhose families were able to raise funds to pay their ransom, while still keeping\nthe rest in captivity. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Nigeria\u2019s\nsecurity crisis has deteriorated incredibly in the last few years. The brazen\nattack on the President\u2019s convoy, the dramatic invasion of the Kuje Custodial\nCentre and several recent security attacks on citizens and the nation\u2019s\ninfrastructure have left a hapless citizenry in confusion and helplessness.\nEvidently, the government does not appear to have the ability to respond to\nthese security challenges or defend its own citizens. Indeed, suspicion\ncontinues to grow that the government and the security agencies may have taken\na back seat and allowed these terrorists to operate unrestrained. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Terrorism that has escalated to the height of national concern, again took centre stage on July 5, 2022. Terrorists reportedly invaded the Kuje Medium Security Custodial Centre, where tens of arrested terrorists were being held. They took away their terrorist colleagues and freed the other prisoners. There was limited resistance to the terrorists as they […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2797,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2791","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2791"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2791\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2795,"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2791\/revisions\/2795"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}