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UK Says Jonathan Did NOT Reject Help To Rescue Chibok Girls by zik4ever: 12:37pm On Mar 08, 2017
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.”

“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.

“The British High Commissioner briefed me on that today (Monday) and said that the allegations are not true,” Rycroft said.

In 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.”
https://www.thecable.ng/uk-ambassador-jonathans-govt-didnt-refuse-our-help-to-rescue-chibok-girls
Re: UK Says Jonathan Did NOT Reject Help To Rescue Chibok Girls by otil1: 12:45pm On Mar 08, 2017
Ok na.

God will continue to bless the meek and kind hearted.

All that conspiracy against a humble soul just because he came from the 'wrong' side of the country will only backfire!

It started to backfire long long ago
Re: UK Says Jonathan Did NOT Reject Help To Rescue Chibok Girls by Heavance(m): 12:48pm On Mar 08, 2017
God sef go don tire for Nigeria case.
We can play politics with issues and life, if care is not taken, Angels could get confused.
Re: UK Says Jonathan Did NOT Reject Help To Rescue Chibok Girls by orisa37: 12:54pm On Mar 08, 2017
The Reporters played JUDAS ISCARIOT.

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