Goodluck Jonathan Grants Article on Missing Chibok Girls to Washington Post

Goodluck Jonathan writes for the United States’ newspaper The Washington Post about the missing Chibok girls and fighting with the Boko Haram terrorist sect

President Goodluck Jonathan

On June 26, a popular and one of the most prominent U.S. newspapers, The Washigton Post, published an article by President Goodluck Jonathan entitled "Nothing is more important than bringing home Nigeria’s missing girls". In it, he explains his previous silence on the ongoing rescue operations, commiserates with the families of the abducted girls.
Nigeria, along with the whole world, has been holding its breath since mid-April, when 276 girls were kidnapped from Chibok town in Borno State. Officially, 197 still remain in captivity.
In his Washington Post article, President Goodluck Jonathan notes that, in order to defeat the Boko Haram menace, Nigerians need to overcome certain "political, religious and ethnic cleavages" and to establish "greater understanding and outreach between Muslims and Christians."
Although terrorism "knows no borders," the international collaboration between Nigeria, Benin, Cameroon, Chad, Niger, the United Kingdom and the United States will most likely result in "something positive," such as the safe return of the remaining Chibok girls.
Jonathan addresses his "partisan" critics who interpreted his silence as a sign of "inaction or even weakness":

"I have had to remain quiet about the continuing efforts by Nigeria’s military, police and investigators … to avoid compromising the details of our investigation."

He then assures the potential readers that the Nigerian government, Nigeria’s security and intelligence services "have spared no resources, have not stopped and will not stop until the girls are returned home and the thugs who took them are brought to justice" and that on his orders, military forces have "aggressively sought these killers in the forests of northern Borno state".
He commiserated with the families of the missing children, saying as a parent, he knows "know how awfully this must hurt" and declaring "finding and rescuing" the girls is the number one point in his agenda.
In September, Jonathan says, he will urge the United Nations’ General Assembly to establish a system for sharing intelligence and, if necessary, special forces and law enforcement to confront terrorism wherever it occurs.