U.S offers to help in search for abducted girls

 The United States is prepared to help Nigeria in the search for the 234 girls abducted by the Boko Haram sect from the Government Girls Secondary School, Chibok, Borno State.
“We have been engaged with the Nigerian government in discussions on what we might do to help support their efforts to find and free these young women,” State Department Spokeswoman, Marie Harf, told reporters on Thursday.
“We will continue to have those discussions and help in any way we can.”
The terrorists stormed the school on April 14, packed the teenagers onto trucks and motorcycles before disappearing into a remote area along the border with Cameroon.
The kidnapping occurred the same day a bomb blast, also blamed on Boko Haram, killed 75 people on the edge of the capital, Abuja, and it marked the first attack on the FCT in two years.
The abduction has shocked Nigerians long accustomed to hearing about atrocities in an increasingly bloody five-year-old insurgency especially in the Northeast. Boko Haram is now seen as the main security threat to the country.
Harf did not elaborate on the kind of assistance Washington is offering, but said: “We know Boko Haram is active in the area and we have worked very closely with the Nigerian government to build their capacity to fight this threat.”
Separately, a group of U.S senators introduced a resolution condemning the abduction and urging U.S government assistance in the rescue effort.
“The U.S and the international community must work with the Nigerian government to ensure these girls are reunited with their families and deepen efforts to combat the growing threat posed by Boko Haram,” said Senator Chris Coons of Delaware, the chairman of the Senate’s African Affairs subcommittee, and one of the resolution’s six sponsors.