Gordon Brown Calls For International Military Aid In Search For Abducted Girls

James Gordon Brown, the former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, has called for international military help in search of Chibok schoolgirls kidnapped by the terrorist group Boko Haram on 14 April.
The Nigerian Presindent, Goodluck Jonathan and the former British Prime Minister, Gordon Brown
The politician had approached the British government to discuss the matter hoping for a positive response. He expressed a strong desire to assist the Nigerian government to track down the whereabouts of the girls with providing air support.
There were various assumptions about the girls' fate, including claims that they had been trafficked across the border into Cameroon. According to some relatives, the girls had been forced into mass marriages and had being shared out as wives among the Boko Haram members.
Mr Brown stressed the immediacy of abducted girls' spotting before they're dispersed throughout Africa. Despite prevailing criticism and anger in the country of the government's failure to locate the girls, Brown said he was not ready to blame Jonathan. Presently it's much more important to find the teenage girls and deal with the problem of terrorism in Nigeria than to search for the guilty.
"Two hundred girls have been abducted, kidnapped, taken into a forest area, and their parents don't know whether they are about to be murdered, or used as sex slaves, or about to be trafficked into other countries," said Brown.
Nigerian armed forces launched an operation in Sambisa forest, but it ended with no result as terrorists ran their file to foil the soldiers. Mr Brown also noted that the terrorist act in Chibok was not a single one, for years schoolchildren in northern parts of the country have been intimidated and hampered from going to school.
The former prime minister said that amidst numerous terrorist organisation aims there's a сonstant campaign to deprive children of the opportunity to go to school. For today more than 10 million children in Nigeria did not attend school. Among other factors that affect school attendance he enumerated child labour, child marriage, child trafficking and discrimination against girls.
Mr Brown added that with the international support and the Nigerian goverment efforts schools should be made more safe and accessible, moreover, they should be protected under the auspices of the UN or Red Cross. It was learnt that Brown will meet Goodluck Jonathan, in Abuja next week.