Last month, 276 girls in a Nigerian boarding school were abducted , as reported by Amnesty International. The Nigerian military knew that the Boko Haram militants were on the way to the boarding school at least four hours before their arrival.

The commanders said they were not able to get enough troops together to respond to this issue leaving only 17 soldiers and a few police officers stationed in the town to fend off the arriving militants in the town of Chibok. Borno state Senator. Ahmed Zannah told reporters that the military had sent reinforcements, but did not arrive in time, leaving the militants already in the town of Chibok.

Over 2,000 people have died in northern Nigeria this year due to militant violence. The most recent attack had taken over 310 people. It was in a town that the troops were looking for the missing girls.

The United States was asked to join in the search to help find the missing girls. U.S. and British officials have already arrived and are preparing to supplement a U.S. team. They agreed to help find the missing girls and plan a rescue mission and a way to subdue Boko Haram. U.S. officials say they are unlikely to commit troops to a combat operation.

Over 200 Boko Haram militants had gone to the school raid. They did it “under the cover of darkness”. They also had a firefight with the security forces in the small town.

It is said the nation is outraged due to the fact of ineffective effort to subdue Boko Haram. This is not the first time Nigeria was accused of failing to take action to stop the raid of Chibok or any other attacks.

The search for the girls is still underway and officials have not given up yet. They don’t know much other than they think they were taken for sex trafficking, but are still continuing to search.