United States urge PMB to rescue abducted Chibok girls

The United States has urged the Federal Government and its citizens to do everything possible to ensure the safe return of the more than 200 schoolgirls abducted from their school hostel in Chibok, Borno State.

The Nigerian Military had on Thursday, stated that it would not be in a hurry to rescue the Chibok girls who were abducted in April 2014.
The Acting Director, Defence Information, Military
Headquarters, Col. Rabe Abubakar, said that while it was of utmost concern to the military to rescue the girls, the
operation required adequate patience and planning.

According to the US acting Consul General, Dehab
Ghebreab, who spoke at the red-carpet première of the
Hollywood crime-drama thriller, ‘Captive’, in Lagos State
recently, the US government would stand against
individuals and groups, who target people for violence,
persecution or discrimination based on their religion.

She said, “Nigeria has its share of humanitarian problems
with Internally Displaced People due to the vicious
atrocities of Boko Haram. In 2014, the United States
provided about $11 million for humanitarian assistance to
Nigeria and we continue to support Nigeria to crush Boko
Haram. On this day (Thursday), the Chibok girls have been
missing for 535 days. Everything humanly possible must bedone to ‘Bring Back the Girls’.”

She also expressed the US’ commitment to end extreme
poverty in Nigeria and other African countries. The consul
general noted that the US had the knowledge and
technology necessary to end extreme poverty within two
decades.

“There is progress upon which to build; aggregate poverty
rates are now falling for every region of the world, and
there are 700 million fewer people living in extreme povertytoday than in 1990. However, even with this progress, 1.2 billion people are still living in extreme poverty and the majority live in Africa,” the US diplomat added.

Source : Punch