80 US troops in Chad seeking Chibok girls – Obama

President Barack Obama says the US has deployed 80 military personnel to Chad to help located more than 200 girls kidnapped in Nigeria.
Obama has sent a letter to the House Speaker, John Boehner, and to the Senate notifying lawmakers about the steps underway to assist in the return of the abducted girls.
According to the MailOnline, Obama says the service members will help with intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance aircraft for missions over northern Nigeria.
He says the force will stay in Chad until its support is no longer necessary.
Chad shares a part of its western border with northeastern Nigeria.
The girls were kidnapped last month by Boko Haram from the Government Girls Secondary School in Chibok, Borno State, an act that has caused international
condemnation and led to the birth of the ‘free our girls’ campaign.
However, the fact that the troops are in Chad and not Nigeria again raises question marks over how the West sees the Nigerian military.
The US insisted that it would not have ‘boots on the ground in Nigeria’ and only sent a small team of experts to Abuja to help in the search.
Even the UK, which is deploying its state-of-the-art surveillance plane, the Sentinel, in the search for the girls, says the plane will be operating from Accra in Ghana and not from any airforce base in Nigeria.