Spokesperson of Pentagon Army, Col. Steve Warren, while speaking with journalists in Washington DC yesterday, said the U.S. government after thorough talks had accepted to help Nigeria with its intelligence analysis.Defence Department’s principal director for African Affairs, Alice Friend, had last week submitted a report to Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee, which stated t that the US would, henceforth stop giving Nigeria information about whereabouts of the abducted girls.
Friend specifically told the lawmakers that Nigeria’s record had been a “persistent and very troubling limitation on the U.S. assistance,” stressing that the Nigerian government’s history of human rights violations and a 1997 law bars the U.S. from providing training and other assistance to militaries or units within them.
But, Steve Warren said the new agreement with Nigerian government covers raw material intelligence, which includes images and other data.
Source: Daily Newswatch
