Nigeria's latest mass kidnapping 'symptomatic of inadequacie

Nigeria’s latest mass kidnapping 'symptomatic of inadequacies built up over years'
By Daniel Finnan - RFI
© AFP - Kola Sulaimon
The mass kidnapping of 344 schoolboys in Nigeria's north-eastern Katsina State and their subsequent release this week is indicative of the continuing security challenges President Muhammadu Buhari faces in northern Nigeria and the country as a whole, a top Nigeria expert has told RFI. 
"The capacity of the state to deal with these problems is questionable sometimes, the military, police and other security agencies are really now overstretched by the scale of the problems,” Nnamdi Obasi of the International Crisis Group told this week's

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