We’re still searching for Chibok girls –US

The United States government has reassured Nigerians that there were still ongoing efforts to locate and rescue the Chibok girls.
This was even as preparations are on to mark the second anniversary of the abduction of the 200 schoolgirls by Boko Haram members in Chibok, Borno State.
The US Assistant Secretary, Bureau of African Affairs, Linda Thomas- Greenfield, said at the US Institute of Peace, that America was providing a range of security assistance to Nigeria, stressing that it had stepped up information- sharing efforts. She said: “One component of our strategy is providing support to the Multinational Joint Task Force, which includes soldiers from Cameroon, Chad, Niger, Nigeria, and Benin. We are providing advisers, intelligence, training, logistical support, and equipment. This is part of a regional approach to a problem that transcends borders.
And as the second anniversary of the Chibok girls’ captivity approaches, we continue to actively support the efforts to locate these girls – none of us has given up on the fight to bring these girls home. We are equally concerned about the thousands of other victims of Boko Haram, which by some measures is the most deadly terrorist organisation in the world today.”
According to Thomas- Greenfield, through the Security Governance Initiative, which President Barack Obama launched in 2014 with six African partners, including Nigeria, the American government is exploring ways to enhance the management of security and justice systems so that Nigeria could provide needed services, including in the North-East, “more efficiently and effectively.”
Thomas-Greenfield added that Nigeria needed to make important moves in its efforts to defeat Boko Haram. She said: “First, it is critical that the foot soldiers of Boko Haram, especially those who may not have joined willfully, are able to leave the group and eventually be accepted back into their communities.