The United States has said that its
assistance to rescue the 276 abducted girls is not designed to take over
Nigerian military and security agencies.
It also said its intervention in the rescue
operation will begin in a matter of days and not weeks.
Besides, said the United States, it is not on
a unilateral mission because the Federal Government will continue to take the
lead in the operation against Boko Haram.
The US said it would set up an
interdisciplinary team at its Embassy in Abuja to coordinate the operations
with the Federal Government.
The US Ambassador to Nigeria, James F.
Entwistle, met with the National Security Adviser Col. Sambo Dasuki on Wednesday
to work out the modalities.
The spokesperson for the US Department of
State, Ms Jen Psaki, made the clarifications at a briefing in Washington late
Wednesday. She said Nigeria did not accept America’s offer in theory.
The transcript of the briefing, which was
released by the US Embassy in Nigeria, said in part: “Well, I believe the
Secretary, from his phone call, feels it wasn’t that they just accepted in
theory. They did accept our assistance, and there will need to be a discussion
about how to best coordinate moving forward, but that will be happening in the
coming days.
“Yes. Our understanding is the agreement is
they’ll be able to do the work that we’ve proposed. Naturally, as a part of
that, there’s an assessment period of what the needs are and how we can best
assist and the Nigerian Government continues to have the lead. It’s not, of
course, a unilateral process we’re conveying here.
“I wouldn’t characterise it that way. What it
is, is we are obviously, the Nigerian Government has the lead in this
effort, and we’re not putting together a unilateral interagency or
interdisciplinary team here. We are there to assist and fill in where they have
needs. So we need to assess that and determine where they have needs and
integrate ours as quickly as possible.
“Obviously, we have a range of capabilities.
We’ve made an offer, of course, to cooperate, and we expect that will be –
(cell phone rings) – oh, that’s quite a festive ring – (laughter) – that we
expect that things will be proceeding in days, not weeks. But I don’t want to
get into, from the podium, an assessment of where we think things stand on that
front.
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Nigerian soldiers , one had working stick , d other one has a celotaped gun. How will u catch shekau ?
ReplyDeleteIf they don't have d varrious amunition let d nation dat has help us
ReplyDeletebeginning of another problem. how? usa shud b careful nt to maltreat muslim. shud they do, it is likely to put our unity at risk. a word is enof for d wife
ReplyDeleteTell dat Idiot talking about Muslim..........the sickness attacking Naija from the Birth is all from Muslims and their Lil faith of beliefs on dying in violence will give ticket to Heaven or where they think ....
DeleteLet us be objective, the word is bring back our girls and not USA!
ReplyDeleteIf you can take over please. We are tired of all the lies. Pls jist help bring back our children. If a wife in the house does not take care of her husband the girlfriend who cares will take over. Welcome guys.by the time you complete the assignments we shall celebrate with you .
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