NIGERIAN TRIBUNE
By Leon Usigbe -Abuja
May 12, 2014
ISRAEL, on Sunday, informed President Goodluck Jonathan that it would be sending a team of Israeli counter-terrorism experts, to assist in the ongoing search and rescue operations of the girls abducted by Boko Haram insurgents in Government Secondary School, Chibok, Borno State.
The offer was conveyed to the president by the Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, in a phone conversation between the two leaders on Sunday.
According to a statement issued by the Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Dr Reuben Abati, in Abuja, Netanyahu called to convey his country’s sympathy and solidarity with Nigeria.
After the call, Jonathan said he was optimistic that with the entire international community deploying its considerable military and intelligence-gathering skills and assets in support of Nigeria’s efforts to find and rescue the abducted Chibok girls, success would soon be achieved.