Efforts to find the missing Chibok schoolgirls received another boost yesterday has Israel pledged to send a team of counter-terrorism experts to help in the search for the girls who remain missing 27 days after they were abducted in the middle of the night by Boko Haram.
Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, disclosed this in a telephone conversation with President Goodluck Jonathan.
During the conversation, Netanyahu, who expressed Israel’s total condemnation of the mass abduction, noted that the team of experts would soon arrive in Nigeria, to work in collaboration with other foreign security experts from the United States and Britain already in the country and their Nigerian counterparts to intensify the search for the girls.
Jonathan also briefed Netanyahu on actions already being taken by the armed forces and security agencies in the country to locate and rescue the girls.
He said that Nigeria would be pleased to have Israel’s globally acknowledged anti-terrorism expertise deployed to support its ongoing operations.
United States President Barrack Obama, British Prime Minister David Cameron, Chinese Premier Li Keqiang, French President Francois Hollade and other world leaders had earlier planned to deploy troops, security experts and assets to rescue the girls from their abductors.
The United Nations, Economic Community of West African States, ECOWAS and International Criminal Police Organisation, INTERPOL, have also expressed solidarity and support.