President Buhari has received needed intelligence for rescuing Chibok girls

– The United Nations representative discussed the rescue of the Chibok girls with President Buhari

– She says that USA moved all needed information on finding missing girls to the Nigerian government

– The UN promised to support Nigeria by all means, adding that it will not rest until the girls wouldn’t be freed

President Muhammadu Buhari and the permanent representative to the United Nations Samantha Power

The permanent representative to the United Nations Samantha Power has said that USA has shared all needed intelligence on finding the Chibok schoolgirls with President Muhammadu Buhari.

Samantha Power was answering to the questions of the State House correspondents after the meeting with President Buhari.


The official noted that the US would not rest until the girls were saved.

She continued that the recent video obtained by the CNN was actually evidence that the girls were still alive and to essentially enable the families of the girls engage with the government.


Mrs. Power said: “The issue of the Chibok girls and other adaptations is of huge priority to the U.S. And it was the issue I discussed at length with President Buhari today.

“We had moved to provide the information and intelligence needed to the Nigerian authorities. We have in recent months been able to allocate additional information sharing platforms and additional surveillance to aid the fight against Boko Haram.

“We will not rest. We will continue to deepen our partnership and be more effective without partners on the ground.

“We are determined to support Nigeria and other neighboring countries’ efforts to secure more rescues of abducted people and releases in the days and weeks ahead.

The mothers of the Chibok girls are crying while watching the recent video showing the missing girls

“What we talked about was the importance of pursuing every need related to the Chibok girls and making sure we have a mechanism whereby parents and family members who have been abducted by Boko Haram can be given information, whereby videos can be examined and family members offer their feedbacks on their impression on the videos to have a process by which family of those who are missing work more constructively with the government and, indeed, with those involved in the operations in trying to rescue the girls.”

“So that was the nature of our discussion with the president. The recent video was one part of our discussion and the larger puzzle that we need to be unraveled.”

Friends and family members of Nigerian schoolgirls abducted two years ago say they have recognized some of them in a new video that recently emerged online.

The girls were taken from their dormitories in the town of Chibok by the Boko Haram sect on April 14, 2014.

The Nigerian army has been claiming victory over the terrorists, pointing to the destruction of different militant camps spread across the group’s stronghold in north-eastern Nigeria and the killing of many members of the group.

Meanwhile, the video shows that despite these successes, the group has been able to hold secure locations where they can hide the girls, even if only in divided groups.

The US officials recently said that they found the location of the missing girls but can’t rescue them now because of the fear of the Boko Haram revenge.