Former British Prime Minister Gordon Brown said on Tuesday that the world
must band together 100 days after the mass abduction of Nigeria schoolgirls
to send the message that “we will not forget” the more than 200 children
still in the clutches of extremists.
Brown, now a United Nations special envoy for global education said that he
hoped the recent arrival of helicopters, night-vision equipment and other
gear to aid in the search for the girls would yield a breakthrough.
“I hope that in the next few weeks we can see more positive results than
we’ve seen in the last hundred days,” Brown said. “This is every parent’s
nightmare.”
The kidnapping, carried out by the Boko Haram group, drew global
condemnation, notably through widespread use of the #BringBackOurGirls
hashtag on Twitter. The White House criticized the government of Nigerian
President Goodluck Jonathan for its sluggish response to the crisis and initial
reluctance to accept U.S. help.
An international mobilization, including a special team to help coordinate
search efforts and reconnaissance flights, has failed to date to rescue the
girls and return them to their families. Equipment and other help have come
in from Eastern Europe, China, the United States, Britain, France, and
Israel. Officials fear that the young women have been separated into
smaller groups, with some scattered elsewhere in Nigeria and others taken
over the borders into Chad, Cameroon and Niger.
Asked why they had not yet been rescued, Brown replied: “Because they’re
being held by a terrorist group that is intent on causing the maximum
damage.”
“And while I think they’ve been located, at least some of them have been
located, they have been split up as a group, and therefore it is very
difficult to rescue one group without putting at risk the others,” said Brown.
“It’s possible that some are in Cameroon. It’s possible that some are in
Niger. It’s possible that some are in other countries now, and it’s also
possible that the long-term plan of Boko Haram is to disperse some of them
across the whole of Africa,” Brown said.
The former prime minister urged people around the world to show public
support for the families and for girls’ education.
“We must show, in the international community, a hundred days after
they’ve been taken into captivity, we will not forget, we will always
remember the plight that they are facing and the dangers they are
undergoing, and we will keep the torch for these girls alive and lit so that
the whole world knows that we must do everything in our power to rescue
them,” he said.
“The families will see that they are not without support and they should not
lose hope, because the efforts are intensifying to bring back the girls,”
Brown said. “We are not forgetting them. We’re trying to do everything we
can to bring them back.”
Asked about the downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17, Brown branded it “a
terrorist act” and called for a investigation under U.N. auspices. And he
echoed Western suspicions that the passenger jet was shot down by Moscow-
backed separatists in eastern Ukraine.
Brown also recalled his “very difficult dealings” with Russian President
Vladimir Putin – notably over the assassination of Alexander Litvinenko, a
former KGB spy, in London in 2006. Russia has refused to deport the lead
suspect, a Russian also thought to have ties to the KGB.
“As you know, there was a murder that took place in London and it was
traced back to people in Russia, and from that moment, relations between
myself and President Putin were very difficult,” he said.
When it comes to the downed airliner, “we’ve got to remember that any
government or any group of leaders in any country that are either directly
or indirectly responsible for an act which caused a huge amount of
disturbance or damage or indeed the loss of lives, they’ve got to be held
accountable in this modern international community,” he said.
Asked about the fighting between Israel and Hamas militants in the Gaza
Strip, Brown called for a ceasefire “as quickly as possible,” followed by
renewed efforts to forge “a more lasting peace” based on the creation of a
Palestinian state living at peace with Israel.
Brown also repeated his opposition to Scottish independence and predicted
that voters will reject severing ties with the rest of the United Kingdom in a
September 18 referendum.
Culled From Yahoo news

good development

When is Niger delta doing their own referendum

good one










Pics of the pilot who died in the Air-Force helicopter crash yesterday
>>> http://www./nigerian-politics-news/pics-of-the-pilot-who-died-in-the-air-force-helicopter-crash/

It took the US only a few days to realize that something wasn't right.They left Nigeria as quickly as they came...they didnt stay up to 4days before they got the drift;LoL to those that still believe some girls were kidnapped..Even a blind man can see through the propaganda...they want the international communities to attack GEJ..thats all they are after;oh wait, you think those guys have time to babysit 200 and something girls?some dumb as5ses obviously dont understand the tricks involved in politics

lol, made it early for comment today

100 painful days for the parents & the kidnapped girls.
#BringBackOurGirls

Medicine after death.. 100days after abduction...yeye dey smell

Ok o. Good development.

i just dey laugh my country!!!! una wan use helicopter look for girls weh dey inside Gov.Shettima compound nii

Shebi dem say nobody was kidnapped? Na cow dem want come rescue abi wetin?

Jona and his cretins will never cease to surprise me

hmmm

That Malala girl sef.


she came and all of a sudden everybody started working again...

Dem Head just de correct

nwannemous: lol, made it early for comment today

And how does that ''achievement'' relate to the topic being disccused?

All i could discern from this post is a long list of endless assupmtions. We want action. Looking forward to their release from politically incited captivity .

It is high time the world agree to delete some words from the dictionary. All over the world(US inclusive), there are serious crises. And unfortunately some groups of words are responsible for such crises. Words like 'I', 'my', 'mine', etc should be modified somehow to 'we', 'us', 'ours', 'all of us', etc. For instance, give Kano, Enugu or Lagos an independence today and watch. In less than a year these words will further divide them into east, west, north and south. So let's unite and stop all these blame games. Because, even America we thought would know does not know again. Infact they have proved to be as 'clueless' as GEJ. .

>̴̴̴̴̴͡.̮Ơ̴͡kay!.

Nigeria, theatre of comedy.
Those girls would have been dispersed to twos and threes over a wide range of area. Probably married out into hundred homes.

We all know boko haram has anti-aircraft weapons, they shut down the NAF plane that crashed in Bama and will shoot down more if they aren't careful.

Wait, I don't understand this at all.

For years the Nigerian Army and Air Force fought Niger Delta militants hiding in the creeks. Up until this present moment, at least 100,000 barrels of oil are being illegally bunkered daily. Illegal oil refineries cause massive pollution to the environment.

You mean to tell me that it's only just now they are procuring night vision equipment for their helicopters?! Or just now that they are deploying them, after an insurgency that has lasted for years that specializes in night time attacks?


What a joke of an Armed forces. Give me back my tax money!

Praying for a better tomorrow!

Gej till 2080

.Now Mr Clueless is waking up from his slumber

I'm sure with the level of corruption in the Defence, half of those night vision would end up in the hands of the terrorists.

We are waiting and praying.

ok...lemme wait and see hiw it goes

Good

Bleep everybody

tsolz84: It took the US only a few days to realize that something wasn't right.They left Nigeria as quickly as they came...they didnt stay up to 4days before they got the drift;LoL to those that still believe some girls were kidnapped..Even a blind man can see through the propaganda...they want the international communities to attack GEJ..thats all they are after;oh wait, you think those guys have time to babysit 200 and something girls?some dumb as5ses obviously dont understand the tricks involved in politics

SMH.....Expired Kunu at work

The world is just at d edge

Episode after episode. The series continues