{"id":13627,"date":"2017-03-08T18:34:26","date_gmt":"2017-03-08T18:34:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/?p=13627"},"modified":"2017-03-08T18:34:26","modified_gmt":"2017-03-08T18:34:26","slug":"it-is-now-official-uk-says-jonathan-did-not-reject-help-to-rescue-chibok-girls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/?p=13627","title":{"rendered":"IT IS NOW OFFICIAL &#8221;UK SAYS JONATHAN DID NOT REJECT HELP TO RESCUE CHIBOK GIRLS&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p><code><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<!-- www.deltanewsroom.com --><br \/>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display: block;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-2163942495525027\" data-ad-slot=\"1411897411\" data-ad-format=\"auto\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script>\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script><\/code><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe girls were located in the first few weeks of the RAF mission. We offered to rescue them, but the Nigerian government declined,\u201d a source involved in Operation Turus was quoted as saying.<\/p>\n<p>But the former president denied it, saying the story was \u201cconcocted\u201d by those \u201cwho have been playing politics with the issue of the abducted girls.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe 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,\u201d former president Goodluck Jonathan said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/jonathan-foundation.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-12612\" src=\"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/jonathan-foundation-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/jonathan-foundation-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/jonathan-foundation-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/jonathan-foundation-768x768.jpg 768w, http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/jonathan-foundation-80x80.jpg 80w, http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/jonathan-foundation-40x40.jpg 40w, http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/jonathan-foundation-64x64.jpg 64w, http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/jonathan-foundation-75x75.jpg 75w, http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/jonathan-foundation.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, the British high commission in Abuja said the report that Jonathan turned down its offer to rescue the girls \u201cwas false.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to THISDAY, Mathew Rycroft, the ambassador, said he was briefed on the matter and the allegations were not true.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe British High Commissioner briefed me on that today (Monday) and said that the allegations are not true,\u201d Rycroft said.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.alternativeadvert.com\/show.php?z=30&amp;pl=12587&amp;ad_type=59&amp;rl=180\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>In a statement further released by the commission read: \u201cUK 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.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut importantly, we won\u2019t comment on specific additional details, which is a matter for the Nigerian government and the military.\u201d THISDAY<\/p>\n<p><code><a href=\"http:\/\/market.jumia.com.ng\/computers-laptops-gaming\/?utm_source=pap&amp;utm_medium=aff&amp;utm_campaign=b364e0f2&amp;a_aid=Omafume&amp;a_bid=b364e0f2\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" title=\"\" src=\"\/\/kaymu.postaffiliatepro.com\/accounts\/default1\/a72f75b38\/b364e0f2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"571\" height=\"245\" \/><\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: 0;\" src=\"http:\/\/kaymu.postaffiliatepro.com\/scripts\/a72f75i38?a_aid=Omafume&amp;a_bid=b364e0f2\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" \/><\/code><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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. 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