David Cameron Alleges British Troops Found Chibok Girls But Goodluck Declined Assent To Rescue The Girls

Former Prime Minister of Britain, David Cameron has alleged that ex-president Goodluck Jonathan refused British troops from rescuing the abducted Chikbok girls.

It could be recalled that the abduction of 274 school girls took place on April 14 2014, which prompted outrage from the international leaders.

The former prime minster revealed this in his memoir titled For The Record. Stating that British troops traced the location of some girls and offered to help but Goodluck declined.

“Iraq wasn’t the only place we would need our military to counter this extremist menace. Boko Haram in Nigeria was linked to al-Qaeda, and believed Western education and lifestyles were a sin (the meaning behind its name). It too wanted to institute a caliphate, and like ISIS it would use whatever barbaric means it thought necessary,” Cameron said.

He further said ““In early 2014 a group of its fighters centered the government secondary school in the village of Chibok, seizing 276 teenage girls. They were taken to camps deep in the forest. The Christians among them were forced to convert to Islam. Many were sold as slaves, entering the same endless violent nightmare the Yazidi women suffered.

“As ‘Bring Back Our Girls’ campaign spread across the world, we embedded a team of military and intelligence experts in Nigeria, and sent spy planes and Tornadoes with thermal imaging to search for the missing girls. And, amazingly, from the skies above a forest three times the size of Wales, we managed to locate some of them.

“But Nigeria’s president, Goodluck Jonathan, seemed to be asleep at the wheel. When he eventually made a statement, it was to accuse the campaigners of politicising the tragedy. And absolutely crucially, when we offered to help rescue the girls we had located, he refused.”

Cameron also noted that Nigerian Army was unable to participate in the operation the UK and US organized because of “politically apoointed generals”

Cameron further revealed that the Archbishop of Canterbury was invited to help proffer solution to the matter.

He said “we had to play the long game focusing on a much bigger training effort for the Nigerian military and intelligence forces and trying to promote more energetic leaders from the younger generation. The Archbishop of Canterbury, as an expert on Nigeria, could be particularly useful on this and I invited him to join our NSC discussion.”