NIGERIA: Jonathan Meets US Ambassador, Gets More Support, from UN, ECOWAS, Others

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President Goodluck  Jonathan yesterday met with the United States Ambassador to Nigeria, Mr. James Entwistle, in Abuja to discuss modalities for the actualisation of the offer made by President Barrack Obama to assist Nigeria in rescuing the schoolgirls abducted from Government Girls’ Secondary School Chibok, Borno State.
 
The meeting, according to a statement issued by Jonathan’s Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Dr. Reuben Abati, was on the sidelines of the ongoing World Economic Forum on Africa was a follow-up to talks held yesterday between Entwistle and Nigerian security officials on the United States offer of assistance.
 
 
At the talks with the ambassador according to the statement,  Jonathan reiterated Nigeria’s appreciation of the United States offer to deploy US security personnel and assets to work with their Nigerian counterparts in the search and rescue operation, which was conveyed to him on Tuesday by the US Secretary of State, Mr. John Kerry.
 
“The president told Entwistle and other delegations which met separately with him at the venue of the World Economic Forum that the much greater support which Nigeria was receiving from the United States and other members of the international community in the aftermath of the Chibok abductions, will certainly help the country to rapidly overcome the Boko Haram insurgency,” the statement said.
 
Other support received by  Jonathan include the President of Ghana, Mr. John Mahama and the President of the ECOWAS Commission, Mr. Kadré Désiré Ouédraogo who brought him a message of solidarity from ECOWAS Heads of State and Government.
 
“President Mahama informed President Jonathan that to support Nigeria’s efforts to rescue the abducted girls and defeat terrorism, ECOWAS leaders have decided to invoke the community’s protocols on counter-terrorism.
 
“The Ghanaian leader said that a meeting of Heads of Intelligence Services of ECOWAS member-countries will hold in Accra next week to work out a new framework for intelligence sharing in support of the effort to eradicate the threat of terrorism in Nigeria and the entire West African sub-region.
 
“President Jonathan also had private meetings with Prof. Klaus Schwab, the Founder of the World Economic Forum, who said Nigeria deserved the maximum solidarity of the world at this trying moment.
 
“He later met with President Jakaya Kikwete of Tanzania, former President Lula Da Silva of Brazil and the Prime Minister of Mali, Mr. Moussa Mara all of who conveyed the solidarity of their governments and people.
 
The Secretary-General of the United Nations, Mr. Ban Ki Moon, also spoke with the president on the phone today to convey the sympathy and solidarity of the global community with the government and people of Nigeria” the statement stressed further.
 
It noted that Ki Moon assured  Jonathan that the United Nations was ready to help Nigeria in every possible way to rescue the abducted girls and achieve greater security of lives and property in all parts of the country.
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