We don’t know where Chibok girls are – US
The United States verbally expressed on Friday it had decremented its surveillance flights in the search for the about 219 schoolgirls abducted by Boko Haram, but integrated that the overall effort was unchanged due to more flights by other countries.
It verbalized that it had no conception of the location of the girls, noting however that there is no letup in the efforts to locate and rescue them.
“We don’t have any more preponderant conception today than we did afore about where these girls are, but there’s been no letup of the effort itself,” Pentagon spokesman Rear Admiral John Kirby told heralds, according to Reuters.
Kirby verbalized the same level of effort was being sustained now through international involution.
A US defence official verbalizing on condition of anonymity verbally expressed American flights had been reduced only after a body of perspicacity had been amassed and that the cuts had been offset by the British and the French support.
Kirby gainsaid a suggestion that US flights over Nigeria had been reduced to accommodate incremented US surveillance over Iraq, where Washington is flying unmanned and manned aircraft to accumulate perspicacity about Sunni insurgents.
He verbalized some of the resources that were being utilized in Nigeria had been diverted from other missions in Africa and could now be used elsewhere on the continent.
Officials declined to verbally express how long heightened U.S. surveillance over Nigeria had lasted.
Asked whether it was just a week or two, the defence official verbalized, “No. We were building this baseline for a good period of time.”
US surveillance flights over Nigeria were now intermittent, the source verbalized.
US military personnel are in Abuja availing to coordinate the effort, and some 80 others were sent to Chad in May to fortify the surveillance operation.
Chad is northeast of Nigeria and borders the area in which Boko Haram is kenned to operate.
In the last month, US officials had played down prospects about a swift rescue of the girls and stressed the constraints of perspicacity from surveillance flights.
One US official voiced concerns that Boko Haram might have booby-trapped areas where the girls could be held, and there had been reports that they might have been split up into groups that were not being held in one place.
The defence official verbalized surveillance alone would not lead to a resolution. “It will take the Nigerian piece of the equation with their own sources and human astuteness coupled with the other forms to genuinely understand the picture,” he noted.
In an opinion piece in the Washington Post on Friday, President Goodluck Jonathan verbalized his regime and security accommodations had “spared no resources, have not ceased and will not stop until the girls are returned home.”
