Britain is offering to step up its military assistance to Nigeria by sending surveillance aircraft and an intelligence team to help the authorities track down the kidnapped schoolgirls, according to a report by the the UK Guardian on Wednesday.
As he rejected claims that the Nigerian government had failed to do enough to help find the missing girls, David Cameron said Britain should be willing to offer help across a range of fronts to help protect schools in the country.
The prime minister told the Members of Parliament, “I can announce that we have offered Nigeria further assistance in terms of surveillance aircraft and a military team to embed with the Nigerian army in their HQ and a team to work with the US experts to analyse information on the girls’ location.
“This was an act of pure evil. The world is coming together not just to condemn it but to do everything we can to help the Nigerians find these young girls.”
Sources indicated that the British surveillance aircraft would not be drones. The military team would work with their Nigerian counterparts at the country’s military HQ to help co-ordinate and analyse intelligence.