“FG Negotiating To Free Chibok Girls” ~ Jonathan Tells Washington Times

President Goodluck Jonathan disclosed on Monday that his government is using third parties to talk to Islamist extremists and try to secure the safe release of the over 200 schoolgirls they kidnapped, saying military action could prove too deadly.

Read the report by the Washington Times below.

In an exclusive interview with The Washington Times, President Goodluck Jonathan also said that U.S. help during the schoolgirls crisis has not produced any results.
“They have been with us for over a month, and we have not been able to get the girls out,” he said. “So you really see that the help has not yet resulted [in] something positive. I wouldn’t say they have helped or they have not helped. Basically they are there to help with intelligence gathering and so on.”
In Washington for an African leaders’ summit with President Obama, Mr. Jonathan directly addressed the criticism both inside his country and abroad to his response to the terrorist group Boko Haram’s kidnapping of the girls from the town of Chibok in April, saying a swift military response likely would have resulted in the death of the children.