There is a strong indication that the United Kingdom is withholding intelligence information as regard the more than 200 Chibok schoolgirls kidnapped by Boko Haram since April 14, 2014.

The girls, until their abduction, were pupils of the Government Secondary School, Chibok, Borno State.

The British government claimed that revealing details of what it found about the whereabouts of the abducted girls would clearly damage its relationship with Nigeria and other allies.

This revelation came after a UK-based group, Security in Africa, through its founder, Ben Oguntala, wrote the British Ministry of Defence to request for information on the Chibok girls.

“The information was sent on January 30 this year and the UK government has 20 days to comply. They do have a defence of national security and that would prevent them from disclosing the information. Let’s hope they don’t. If they rely on national security defence, we can raise the matter with the Information Commissioner’s office to determine if their claim of national security is reasonable,” Oguntala told our correspondent while requesting for the information.

The SIA founder, who had earlier in January this year said it was setting up a taskforce to go to Sambisa Forest to secure the release of the abducted schoolgirls, requested from the UK government to know the “results and reports of the British Armed Forces, the details of where they searched and the results of their findings.

“We also seek to have the details of the technology, technique or methodology used in the search and the consequential results,” he wrote in his request letter.

But, in a letter from the MOD’s Permanent Joint Headquarters in Middlesex, dated February 25, a copy of which was made available to our correspondent, the British government said some of the information requested by Oguntala “falls entirely within the scope of the qualified exemption provided for at section 27 (International Relations) of the FOIA and has been withheld.”

It said, “Section 27 is a qualified exemption and is subject to public interest testing which means that the information requested can only be withheld if the public interest in doing so outweighs the public interest in disclosure.

“Section 27(1)(a), (1)(c) and (2) have been applied because some of the information has the potential to adversely affect relations with our allies. The Public Interest Test concluded that whilst release would increase public understanding and confidence in the relation the United Kingdom has with other international states in its assistance with operations, the balance of the public interest lay in withholding the information you desire.

“We have considered it necessary to apply the higher level of prejudice against release of the exempted information at the higher level of ‘would’ rather than ‘would be likely to’ adversely affect relations with our allies.”

The British defence ministry stated that it would not release the details of where the UK soldiers searched and the results of their findings.

It however shared details of the “technology, technique or methodology” used in the search.

According to the MOD, the RAF Sentinel R1 and Tornado aircraft were used to “provide imagery and other data as part of a combined effort with Nigeria and other nations.”

The Sentinel R1 is the UK Royal Air Force’s only long-range wide area battlefield surveillance asset, providing critical intelligence and target tracking information to British and Coalition forces.

“After the 1990 Gulf War, it was identified by the allies that Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance had played a key role in the success of this operation. In particular, the use of Synthetic Aperture Radar and Ground Moving Target Indicator had proved invaluable in the tracking and prosecution of enemy ground forces. This galvanised the UK to acquire its own capability and in 1993 the requirement was endorsed by the MOD,” the RAF said on its website.

Not deterred by the response of the MOD, Oguntala said his group would also approach the British Prime Minister to “reveal what he can about the Chibok girls.”

“I have had several persons suggesting that I drop the matter and claiming Boko Haram is being used by political players. This information request approach means if the British government declares what it knows, there will be no place for Nigerian political players to hide,” he said.


http://www.punchng.com/news/releasing-chibok-girls-informationll-damage-ties-with-nigeria-uk/

Long and short,
1. The Western World comprising the UK, US, France, Canada and Australia discovered very quickly that the real Shekau resides in Aso Rock.

2. They did not want to be part of a war they could never win and quietly packed the bags and left.

3. They knew the boko haram rubbish was a proxy war by the government against its own people.

CONCLUSION: The current occupiers of Aso Rock, sooner or later, shall have their day at The Hague.

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Abayhormy:
every TRULY REASONABLE person should know something is FISHY.

Questions for Jonathan and PDP
1. Why was (is) "Boko Haram" busy destroying
states and areas that the opposition party will
win convincingly in the presidential election?

2. If we are to believe that the opposition were
the brains and architects of "Boko Haram",
then why is it that they have never ever
attacked and destroyed any prominent PDP
figure or their properties?

3. If the opposition have the capability of
arming "terrorists" with armour tanks, RPGs,
AA Guns, military uniforms, military trucks,
helicopters and the ability to command
soldiers to vanish from military checkpoints,
wouldn't they have targeted to destroy PDP
strongholds and their assets?

4. Why would the opposition seek to destroy
their own strongholds anyway? To achieve
what?

5. Why was (is) "Boko Haram" targeting to
destroy basically only prominent northern
politicians and their traditional rulers and their
communities?

6. In the light of questions 1 to 5 above, why
has there been a deliberate campaign of lies
and propaganda by the PDP and their religious
wing that collect bribes in billions of naira that
"Boko Haram" is the baby of the opposition?

7. Of all the cars used by "suicide" bombers
retrieved from the scene of their attacks, to
whom were the cars traced after forensic
investigations? Why is it that nothing is ever
heard after such evidences have been collated
at the scenes since 2011?

8. At the last count, over 500 hundred "Boko
Haram" suspects have been in detention since
2009, but why is it that government hasn't
been able to come clean on those sponsoring
the "terrorists", and why is it that, with such a
huge treasure trove, government has not been
able to know and curtail the operational
methods of the "terrorists"?


9. Why did the "terrorists" become stronger
after a scandalous 33 billion dollars (over 4
trillion naira) was expended on the so called
war against them?

10. Why was it that, at a point from 2013, the
Nigerian military was not taking the war to
"Boko Haram" camps in the deserts of the
northeast instead of waiting for "Boko Haram"
to come on the offensive?

11. Since when has repulsion become the best
form of defence instead of attack?

13. Why did "Boko Haram" have the most
freedom to operate and destroy so many
towns and villages during all the period of
State of Emergency that was supposed to have
made them immobile?

14. Was the State of Emergency some fraud
pulled off to empower the "terrorists" and
make the targeted communities sitting ducks
for easy elimination?

15. Who was providing "Boko Haram" with fuel
and other logistics in their camps considering
how they easily move with long convoys of
trucks to operate without challenge?
These are not the only questions.... There are many more. But they've not been able to answer any of these, rather they always want
to heap their scheme on others.These questions and many more could be the reason they are mortally scared of losing political power.

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Nonsense the British MOD is just speaking English

GEJ/PDP are complicit in Boko Haram insurgency and of course the Chibok Girls and other abductions. If it were the opposition camp, the international allies would definitely have released such info, at least to the FG in order to do the needful.

The facts behind Boko Haram insurgency is the main reason GEJ and his cohorts will prefer to die or take Nigeria through another civil war rather than lose the election. However, one way or the other, the faces of the wicked ones shall be known and justice will eventually be served.

Jonathan is so wicked and he has blood on his hands. When he eventually exits, all the truths will be revealed and he will spend many years behind bars.

Aint d mere knowledge dat they r withholdin info regarding d gurls damaging 2 d relationship?

Not releasing the information will make the poor girls perpetual captives of 'all the mighty' Are they permissible loss to the country? Their stand would have been different had their citizen been involved. Citizens, lets wait for wikileaks.

another child of hate and vexations...

mkpakanaodogwu:
Nonsense the British MOD is just speaking English

no...if they release it ...it will be worse than the NNPC $20 billion probe

Tazmode:
Aint d mere knowledge dat they r withholdin info regarding d gurls damaging 2 d relationship?

UK will implicate Buhari if they release that report..

praxisnetworks:
another child of hate and vexations...

too early to start your madness,the sun is not up yet

absoluteSuccess:
Not releasing the information will make the poor girls perpetual captives of 'all the mighty' Are they permissible loss to the country?

At the bold,

Well, the international allies will consider them so at this stage but surely will wait for their "right time" to take the pound of flesh.

child of hate and vexations....

mkpakanaodogwu:
too early to start your madness,the sun is not up yet

Nope rather GEJ will be in a boiling soup...which he already is via his 2015 budget of perpetual poverty....see attached 91% recurrent expenditure!

oneeast:
UK will implicate Buhari if they release that report..

Where are those celebrating the FOI Bill.
What bothers me is why are the foreign countries treating the issue of this insurgency in tactically uncommitted way?.
This remind me of a live interview more than a decade before on NTA between GM of then NTA Dr. Tony Iredia and the former Nigerian High Commisioner to UK Alhaji Abubakar Alhaji whereby Tony asks a certain question and Alhaji replies "Tony you and I knows that there are things we know that Nigerians dont know. And if we should divulge these In the next 12 hours civil war will begin in Nigeria".
This BH there is more to it than the government willing to acknowledge

PassingShot:


At the bold,

Well, the international allies will consider them so at this stage but surely will wait for their "right time" to take the pound of flesh.

Of course, they are intricate-lifelines to their captors anyway, yet delay can be dangerous.

It will indict the APC, remember APC governor Shettima allowed the kidnap to take place.

praxisnetworks:
no...if they release it ...it will be worse than the NNPC $20 billion probe

what makes you so sure?

I think only lame people who refused to see beyond ethnicity, religion and party affiliation still believes that Boko Haram is a terrorist organization. The discerning ones knows it is a political tool created by those who benefited from it one way or the other. I hope the military wins the war and reclaim our territories and like the president said "Never again" should our politicians use such tactics for political gains (Italics mine).

so freaking sure....

Tazmode:
what makes you so sure?

oneeast:
UK will implicate Buhari if they release that report..

Exactly!

is Buhari in government yet?! think well b4 rushing to komment

Ivanspring:


Exactly!

praxisnetworks:
so freaking sure....

you haven't said anything. But that's your p.

All this excuses for failure Na wao.






The war is gradually been won and our disappointing western allies are queuing up to dish out fables on how they were helpless when we needed them most.

#Yinmu #UKwillknow

i dont know what to do with this situation

Definitely the government know more about chibok girls.

KwoiZabo:
It will indict the APC, remember APC governor Shettima allowed the kidnap to take place.

Your daftness is legendary.

Do the needful jare