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STORY: UN / NIGERIA DJINNIT
TRT: 2.03
SOURCE: UNTV
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 22 MAY 2014, NEW YORK CITY / FILE
FILE – RECENT, NEW YORK CITY
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22 MAY 2014, NEW YORK CITY
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3. Med shot, photographers
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Said Djinnit, SRSG and Head of the UN Office for West Africa:
“The suspicion is that there are links between terrorism and drug trafficking, definitely. I mean they operate in the same zone, they use the same infrastructure, so there is great suspicion that there some relations but I cannot tell you, I am not the right man to tell you exactly how Boko Haram or other terrorist groups are involved in drug trafficking. But what I know is that Boko Haram is creating chaos in some regions in the country through this kind of activities.”
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6. SOUNDBITE (English) Said Djinnit, SRSG and Head of the UN Office for West Africa:
“Unfortunately our role on that is essentially advisory, because the UN has no security to provide to protect schools, but it is very important. The UN is very concerned about the security of schools and we made a point and one of the elements of that is to provide support to working with the education system in Nigeria to see what the UN could provide in terms of helping them to insure security of the schools. That is of pivotal importance to the United Nations.”
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8. SOUNDBITE (English) Yury Fedotov, Executive Director of UNODC:
“The abducted girls were threatened to be sold as slaves and that is a horrible crime. The appalling kidnapping in Chibok and the terrorist attacks that followed this event are really a wake up call for all of us in the UN system. Of course UN cannot provide physical security in every school in a huge country like Nigeria, but what you can do and what we are doing, we can help strengthen the criminal justice response in Nigeria to terrorism and crime.”
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10. Zoom out, end of presser
Fresh from his trip to Nigeria, the Special Reprehensive of the Secretary-General and Head of the UN Office for West Africa, Said Djinnit, today (22 May) said that Boko Haram “is creating chaos in some regions in the country.”
Djinnit, speaking at press conference in New York, said that there is “great suspicion" that there is a link between terrorist groups and drug trafficking gangs operating in the area.
He noted that the UN is “very concerned about the security of schools” and is working with the education system in Nigeria “to see what the UN could provide in terms of helping them to insure security of the schools.”
The envoy visited Nigeria from 12 to 15 May in his capacity as the High-Level Representative of the Secretary-General to discuss with Government officials the assistance that the UN could provide in support of ongoing efforts to seek the safe release of the more than 200 girls abducted from their school in Chibok in mid-April.
At the same press conference, Yury Fedotov, who is the Executive Director of United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) said “the appalling kidnapping in Chibok and the terrorist attacks that followed this event are really a wake up call for all of us in the UN system.”
He said that the UN “cannot provide physical security in every school in a huge country like Nigeria, but what you can do and what we are doing, we can help strengthen the criminal justice response in Nigeria to terrorism and crime.”
On Wednesday, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and Djinnit strongly condemned the double bombings that targeted a market in the Nigerian city of Jos and resulted in the deaths of over 100 people and the wounding of scores more.
The bombings have reportedly been blamed on the militant group known as Boko Haram, which is responsible for the abduction of the school girls. The group, whose name stands for “Western education is a sin,” has been carrying out targeted attacks in recent years against schools, police, religious leaders, politicians, public and international institutions, indiscriminately killing civilians, including dozens of children.
