discussed the rescue of the Chibok girls
with President Buhari
– She says that USA moved all needed
information on finding missing girls to the
Nigerian government
– The UN promised to support Nigeria by all
means, adding that it will not rest until the
girls wouldn’t be freed
President Muhammadu Buhari and the
permanent representative to the United
Nations Samantha Power
The permanent representative to the United
Nations Samantha Power has said that USA
has shared all needed intelligence on finding
the Chibok schoolgirls with President
Muhammadu Buhari.
Samantha Power was answering to the
questions of the State House correspondents
after the meeting with President Buhari.
The official noted that the US would not rest
until the girls were saved.
She continued that the recent video obtained
by the CNN was actually evidence that the
girls were still alive and to essentially enable
the families of the girls engage with the
government.
Mrs. Power said: “The issue of the Chibok
girls and other adaptations is of huge priority
to the U.S. And it was the issue I discussed at
length with President Buhari today.
“We had moved to provide the information and
intelligence needed to the Nigerian authorities.
We have in recent months been able to
allocate additional information sharing
platforms and additional surveillance to aid the
fight against Boko Haram.
“We will not rest. We will continue to deepen
our partnership and be more effective without
partners on the ground.
“We are determined to support Nigeria and
other neighboring countries’ efforts to secure
more rescues of abducted people and releases
in the days and weeks ahead.
The mothers of the Chibok girls are crying
while watching the recent video showing the
missing girls
“What we talked about was the importance of
pursuing every need related to the Chibok girls
and making sure we have a mechanism
whereby parents and family members who have
been abducted by Boko Haram can be given
information, whereby videos can be examined
and family members offer their feedbacks on
their impression on the videos to have a
process by which family of those who are
missing work more constructively with the
government and, indeed, with those involved in
the operations in trying to rescue the girls.”
“So that was the nature of our discussion with
the president. The recent video was one part
of our discussion and the larger puzzle that
we need to be unraveled.”
Friends and family members of Nigerian
schoolgirls abducted two years ago say they
have recognized some of them in a new
video that recently emerged online.
The girls were taken from their dormitories
in the town of Chibok by the Boko Haram
sect on April 14, 2014.
The Nigerian army has been claiming victory
over the terrorists, pointing to the
destruction of different militant camps
spread across the group’s stronghold in
north-eastern Nigeria and the killing of many
members of the group.
Meanwhile, the video shows that despite
these successes , the group has been able to
hold secure locations where they can hide
the girls, even if only in divided groups.
The US officials recently said that they
found the location of the missing girls but
can’t rescue them now because of the fear
of the Boko Haram revenge.
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