Chibok: France Offers To Send Agents For Rescue Operation
France on Wednesday offered to send security service agents to
Nigeria to help recover more than 200 schoolgirls kidnapped by the Boko
Haram sect, Foreign Minister, Laurent Fabius, said.
With more than 4,000 troops operating between Mali to the west and
Central African Republic to the east, Paris has a major interest in
preventing Nigeria’s security situation from deteriorating, having
previously voiced concerns Boko Haram could spread further north into
the Sahel.
“The President has instructed … to put the (intelligence)
services at the disposal of Nigeria and neighbouring countries,” Reuters
quoted Fabius as saying to lawmakers.
“This morning he asked us to contact the Nigerian president to tell
him that a specialised unit with all the means we have in the region was
at the disposal of Nigeria to help find and recover these young girls.”
Boko Haram kidnapped more than 200 schoolgirls last month and has
threatened to sell them into slavery.
“In the face of such ignominy
France must react. This crime cannot be left unpunished,” Fabius said.