The Observer of London had reported that the Jonathan-led administration rejected the offer of British armed forces to help in rescuing the girls, who were abducted in April 2014.
However, Jonathan in a statement signed by Ikechukwu Eze, his media adviser said the report was not true.
“Our attention has been drawn to a report that has been trending, without proper attribution, to the effect that the last administration rebuffed British offer to rescue the kidnapped Chibok school girls,” he said.
“We wish to promptly point out that nothing can be further from the truth, as Nigerians are conversant with the effort made by the Jonathan administration towards rescuing the Chibok girls, especially in relation to collaborating with the international community.
“We can confidently say that the lies in this report are self evident. This is because the international press as well as the Nigeria media actively covered the multinational efforts and collaboration which involved some of the major powers deploying their crack intelligence officers to work with our own security operatives, and those of our neighbours.”
“In fact, the Jonathan administration was so genuinely supportive that the foreign powers involved were granted permission to overfly our airspace, while conducting the search and rescue missions,” he said.
“We would wish to recall that this collaboration was made possible following letters personally written by former president Jonathan to Barack Obama, former president of the United States; Francois Hollande, president of France, David Cameron, former British prime minister, as well as personal contacts made to the Governments of Israel and China, seeking their assistance in the search for the abducted Chibok girls.
“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,” he said
U did ur best sir,
ReplyDeleteLet us allow logic to prevail. Put on your thinking caps...
ReplyDeleteLet COMMON SENSE prevail. This story was meant to DISTRACT Nigerians from more important stories such as the President's medical vacation, the CBN Forex Scam, and Mallam Nasir El Rufai's gaff in his recent interview. Wake up Nigerians! WAKE UP!!!
Permit me to ask SOME VERY SIMPLE BUT REASONABLE QUESTIONS here. But we shall reason first...
(1.) The average SS3 set in a Secondary School in Nigeria will have about 6 classes (SS3A to SS3F) with an average of 35 students in each class. This brings the total number of students in SS3 set to 210 students (35 X 6 = 210). This would include students in Science, Arts, and Commercial. That said, WE ALL IN NIGERIA AND INDEED THE WHOLE WORLD KNOW that Northern Nigeria is EDUCATIONALLY BACKWARD compared to Southern Nigeria. We may thus reduce this number by about 20%. This would leave the total number of students at 168 students (210 X 80% = 168). On the average, we usually have 2 to 3 Science classes in each SS set. The number of Science students progressively shrinks from SS1 to SS3 as more students become uncomfortable with Science subjects. In 98% of Secondary Schools in Nigeria, we might just have 2 Science classes, usually SS3A and SS3B. This is a total number of 70 Students in Southern Nigeria secondary schools and 56 Students in Northern Nigeria secondary schools.
The "easiest" of the Science subjects for most students is Biology followed by Chemistry and Physics. HOW ON EARTH WILL AN ALL-FEMALE SECONDARY SCHOOL IN NORTHERN NIGERIA HAVE 276 STUDENTS SITTING FOR A PHYSICS FINAL EXAM IN ONE DAY??? THIS IS SIMPLY ILLOGICAL, UNREASONABLE AND, I DARE SAY, IMPOSSIBLE!!!!
(2.) Since the "RELEASE" of some 30 "Chibok girls" touted to be among the 276 kidnapped by the Boko Haram Terrorist Group, NO NEWS MEDIA IN THE WORLD (LOCAL AND INTERNATIONAL) has been granted unfettered access to interview these girls, not even the UK Guardian Newspaper, but especially local news media that ordinary should have been the FIRST. This is a departure from the norm that we know. Isn't it obvious that SOMETHING IS BEING CONCEALED from the public?
EVERYTHING about the Missing Chibok Girls seems like a prevarication, mendacity, canard. "I don't buy it—it's all a load of baloney." My views!!!