It is not true that the Jonathan administration rejected the offer of British armed forces to help in rescuing the abducted Chibok girls, the United Kingdom government has said.
On Sunday, The Observer, a UK newspaper, said Britain was ready to rescue the Chibok girls after they conducted air reconnaissance over northern Nigeria for several months in a mission named Operation Turus, but the Jonathan administration declined.
“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.
But the former president denied it, saying the story was “concocted” by those “who have been playing politics with the issue of the abducted girls.”
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“We are not surprised that this kind of concocted story is coming out at this point in time, as it appears that some people who have obviously been playing politics with the issue of the Chibok girls will stop at nothing to further their interest,” former president Goodluck Jonathan said in a statement.
On Tuesday, the British high commission in Abuja said the report that Jonathan turned down its offer to rescue the girls “was false.”
According to THISDAY, Mathew Rycroft, the ambassador, said he was briefed on the matter and the allegations were not true.
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“The British High Commissioner briefed me on that today (Monday) and said that the allegations are not true,” Rycroft said.
A statement further released by the commission read: “UK worked with the US and France to provide a range of military and intelligence support to the Nigerian government in their search (for the Chibok girls), and in fact, a wider effort to address the longer term challenge of terrorism.
“But importantly, we won’t comment on specific additional details, which is a matter for the Nigerian government and the military.”
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4 comments
A right thinking Nigerian will never belief such report because we are aware of were its coming and were is pointing to
We all awared of what transpired then that Goodluck Jonathan didn’t believe that there was any kidnaping taken place às was eroded by his political loyalists. Because he believed it was a poltical gimick he rejected all offers for the rescue. That is just the fact and this was substantiated by current publication revealing his rejection, any attempt reversing this fact will not be a shameless fallacy but a public misleading Information and after thought publication from the stagemanaged individual or authors.
No matter how fast lies run, truth will catch up and overtake it. God bless Goodluck Ebele Johathan!
I really appreciate the British armed government for going through the allegation of de past administration of my EX president Dr good luck ,,,,,more wings to ur elbow.. Thanks