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Mass jailbreak as guards celebrate Museveni win
KAMPALA - More than 400 Ugandan inmates broke out of a regional prison at the weekend as guards celebrated President Yoweri Museveni’s election victory in raucous fashion, officials said on Monday.

The 408 prisoners broke out of the Arua regional prison, about 600 kilometers (375 miles) northwest of the capital, on Saturday during revelry prompted by the official announcement of Museveni’s win, they said. “They escaped right after the announcement was made that President Museveni had won and the celebration was noisy,” Ugandan prisons chief Johnson Byabasaija told AFP.
"Hokay, now's our chance boyos, the screws are partying!"
He said laxity among guards and prison administrators allowed more than half of the 716 inmates in the prison at the time to pull down a fence and run en masse to freedom. Security forces were still trying to recapture the escapees, who included five people convicted on treason charges, Byabasaija said.

The incident was the second-election related jailbreak in Uganda within three days. On election day, Thursday, some 80 prisoners took advantage of distractions over the vote and the transfer of prison guards to protect polling stations to escape from a work detail in northern Uganda’s Apac district. With one shift of warders at their minimum-security jail assigned to voting centers and attention squarely focused on the election, the inmates slipped away from guards while fetching water for the facility, officials said.
Posted by: Steve White 2006-02-28
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