#BringBackOurGirls: US to help Nigeria find Chibok schoolgirls...
It has been confirmed that the US will now help Nigeria in searching for and rescuing the missing Chibok schoolgirls who were kidnapped on April 14, 2014 by Boko Haram.
The BBC reports that President Goodluck Jonathan has welcomed the support and accepted help.
Read an official letter of how the deployment was arranged:
President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan
Tuesday welcomed and accepted a definite offer of help from the United
States of America in the ongoing effort to locate and rescue the girls
abducted from the Government Girls Secondary School, Chibok, three weeks
ago.
The offer from President Barack
Obama which was conveyed to President Jonathan by the United States
Secretary of State, Mr. John Kerry in a telephone conversation which
began at 15:30 Hours today, included the deployment of U.S. security
personnel and assets to work with their Nigerian counterparts in the
search and rescue operation.
Mr. Kerry assured President Jonathan
that the United States’ is wholly committed to giving Nigeria all
required support and assistance to save the abducted girls and begin the
reign of terror unleashed on parts of the country by Boko Haram to an
end.
Thanking Mr. Kerry for the call and
offer of further assistance, President Jonathan told him that Nigeria’s
security agencies who were already working at full capacity to find and
rescue the abducted girls would appreciate the deployment of American
counter-insurgency know-how and expertise in support of their efforts.
After speaking with the United
States Secretary of State, President Jonathan today met with the Chief
of Defence Staff, Service Chiefs and heads of national security agencies
in continuation of the national efforts to find and rescue the abducted
girls.
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