We Can't Confirm Nigeria’s Claims To Know The Location Of Abducted Girls, Says U.S.

Following claims
by Nigeria's
defense chief that
the country's
military had found
the location of
more than 200 missing schoolgirls, the United
States has said that it has been unable to
verify that claim.
Speaking a day after Nigerian Air Marshal
Alex Badeh claimed to know the location of
the girls, the U.S. department spokeswoman,
Jen Psaki, they do not have independent
information to confirm Nigeria's claims, while
also questioning the wisdom of making public
such information.
"We don't have independent information from
the United States to support these reports
that you referenced.
"We, as a matter of policy and for the girls'
safety and well being, would not discuss
publicly this sort of information regardless,"
Psaki said.
The United states and other nations have
been helping Nigeria in the search for over
200 girls who were abducted on April 14 from
their school in Chibok, Borno state by the
deadly Boko Haram insurgents.
On Monday, May 28, the the Chief of Defence
Staff, Air Marshal Alex Badeh, revealed that
the Nigerian security leadership had located
where members of Boko Haram were holding
the abducted girls .
His shocking revelation came after the Nigeria
government refused negotiating with the Boko
Haram sect on the release of the schoolgirls.