It is not true that the Jonathan administration rejected the offer of
\nBritish armed forces to help in rescuing the abducted Chibok girls, the
\nUnited Kingdom government has said.<\/p>\n
On Sunday<\/span><\/span>, The Observer, a UK newspaper, said Britain was ready to rescue \u201cThe girls were located in the first few weeks of the RAF mission. We But the former president denied it, saying the story was \u201cconcocted\u201d by \u201cWe are not surprised that this kind of concocted story is coming out at On Tuesday<\/span><\/span>, the British high commission in Abuja said the report that According to THISDAY, Mathew Rycroft, the ambassador, said he was briefed \u201cThe British High Commissioner briefed me on that today (Monday<\/span><\/span>) and said In a statement further released by the commission read: \u201cUK worked with \u201cBut importantly, we won\u2019t comment on specific additional details, which 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…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":56631,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-exclusive"],"yoast_head":"\n
\nthe Chibok girls after they conducted air reconnaissance over northern
\nNigeria for several months in a mission named Operation Turus, but the
\nJonathan administration declined.<\/p>\n
\noffered to rescue them, but the Nigerian government declined,\u201d a source
\ninvolved in Operation Turus was quoted as saying.<\/p>\n
\nthose \u201cwho have been playing politics with the issue of the abducted
\ngirls.\u201d<\/p>\n
\nthis point in time, as it appears that some people who have obviously been
\nplaying politics with the issue of the Chibok girls will stop at nothing
\nto further their interest,\u201d former president Goodluck Jonathan said in a
\nstatement.<\/p>\n
\nJonathan turned down its offer to rescue the girls \u201cwas false.\u201d<\/p>\n
\non the matter and the allegations were not true.<\/p>\n
\nthat the allegations are not true,\u201d Rycroft said.<\/p>\n
\nthe US and France to provide a range of military and intelligence support
\nto the Nigerian government in their search (for the Chibok girls), and in
\nfact, a wider effort to address the longer term challenge of terrorism.<\/p>\n
\nis a matter for the Nigerian government and the military.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"