Nigeria: September 25, 2002

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The national police, long reviled as corrupt and ineffective, have finally struck back at the most prominent vigilante group that has formed to keep the peace. In a series of raids, over a hundred members of the Bakassi Boys were arrested and several of their offices closed down.  The prisoners were ordered moved to the capital, to make it more difficult for anyone to try and free them by force. 

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