Jonathan’s govt ‘rejected British offer’ to rescue Chibok girls
The administration of Goodluck Jonathan reportedly rejected the offer of British armed forces to help in rescuing the abducted Chibok girls.
According to the Observer, Britain was ready to rescue the Chibok girls from the Boko Haram insurgent group after their abduction in April 2014.
Britain’s royal air force was said to have conducted air reconnaissance over northern Nigeria for several months in a mission named Operation Turus.
“The girls were located in the first few weeks of the RAF mission. We offered to rescue them, but the Nigerian government declined,” a source involved in Operation Turus was quoted as saying.
According to the unnamed source, the girls were tracked by aircraft while they were being divided into smaller groups in the months after their kidnap.
The Observer reports that it obtained notes from meetings between UK and Nigerian officials through the Freedom of Information Act, which suggest that Nigeria rebuffed several international offers to rescue the girls.
Jonathan who lost the 2015 presidential election to Muhammadu Buhari has been, over time, criticised for not acting promptly in the early days of the Chibok girls’ captivity.
The All Progressives Congress (APC) had accused his administration of seeking to negotiate the timing of the release of the abducted Chibok girls to create a maximum public relations boost.
of course people were protesting that the outsiders are coming to spy on us, I can remember it, so to avoid trouble with the army he didn’t.
There terms and conditions that should be apply if truly he want to accept their hands in helping US, his selfish interest made him to reject their offer.
Jonathan knows about chibok girls
I mean, he knows about bokoharam
As a means of proving the truth in this post.
Why is the name of the accuser not mentioned?