The federal government has said again that information and intelligence are lacking in the efforts to rescued the abducted girls of the Government Secondary School, Chibok.
Loading ...Addressing newsmen in Abuja on Monday, Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Amb. Bulus Lolo, said up till now no one has come out with any useful information on the location of the abducted girls.
Lolo said: “the dilemma for government is how to reach the location where these girls are and bring them out safely. Government has even said its willing to negotiate with credible group… but up till now, information and intelligence are lacking and because these are lacking it remain a challenge to the government.”
On the Boko Haram insurgency, Amb. Lolo said he was sure that the worst critics of the present government could testify that Boko Haram has been degraded.
the government however, revealed that it has concluded arrangement to host the second regional security summit in Abuja to evaluate the successes or otherwise of the maiden edition of the summit which held in Paris, France in 2014.
He disclosed that the regional security summit will begin from Thursday (today) 12th May to Saturday 14th May in Abuja.
“Two years since the 1st Regional Security Summit, the member-states of the Lake Chad Basin and Benin Republic with the active support of development partners have been able to achieve a number of important objectives that include among others, the recovery of territories occupied by the terrorists in Nigeria; the reactivating of the multi-national joint taskforce with 8, 500 officers and men drawn from member-states to strengthen the security of their border regions.”
He added that the summit would also institute a post-conflict development programme, and as well put in place, mechanisms that would ensure that the military gains in the North-east are consolidated through civil programmes by winning the hearts of the people through reconstruction, rehabilitation and resettlement of the IDPs.
Lolo also expressed Nigeria’s commitment to the success of the Multi-National Joint TaskForce (MNJTF) saying out of the $100m Nigeria pledged to the regional force, it has paid $21m and is set to offset the balance.
Countries expected at the three days summit are France, Chad, Niger Republic, Cameroon, Benin Republic, AU, Togo, Ghana, Britain, USA, EU and China.
