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Page 10 The Skanner March 21, 2018 News Boko Haram Returns Nigeria Girls, Warns Not to Put in School of the girls had been re- leased. Some of the Chibok families instead joined in rejoicing with the Dapchi parents, said Lawan Zan- nah, secretary of the Chi- By Haruna Umar and Krista Larson Associated Press REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS 3498 AP PHOTO/JOSSY OLA MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (AP) — Boko Haram Is- lamic extremists brought back nearly all of the 110 girls they had kidnapped from a boarding school last month, dropping them off in the middle of the night Wednesday with a warning: “Don’t ever put your daughters in school again.” Several of the girls in- terviewed by The Associ- ated Press said they had been traveling for days before the convoy of ve- hicles arrived in the cen- ter of the town of Dapchi around 2 a.m. Residents who had fled upon hear- ing that Boko Haram was headed their way watched from hiding as dozens of girls descend- ed from the vehicles ap- parently unharmed. “We were freed be- cause we are Muslim girls and they didn’t want us to suffer. That is why they released us,” said Khadija Grema, one of the freed girls who said a Christian classmate re- mained captive. The extraordinary development brought elation to most of the families, but more heart- ache for the relatives of the nine girls still unac- counted for. The sister of one of the girls still be- ing held captive fainted Wednesday upon hear- ing news that she was not among those freed. One 14-year-old re- leased by the fighters told reporters that five girls had died. She did not provide other details and it was not immediately possible to independent- ly verify her claim. The abductions in Dap- chi have evoked painful memories of the trage- dy in Chibok, where 276 girls were kidnapped from their boarding school. Nearly four years later, about 100 of them have never returned home. Many had been forced to marry their captors and had children fathered by them. The Nigerian gov- ernment denied that it had paid a ransom in exchange for the girls’ freedom. The girls were released “through back-channel efforts and with the help of some friends of the country, and it was uncondition- al,” Information Minis- ter Lai Mohammed told journalists in the capital of Abuja. “No money changed hands. They only had one condition — that they will return them to where they took them. Medical Monitoring Aishat Alhaji , second, right, one of the kidnapped girls from the Government Girls Science and Technical College Dapchi who was freed, is photographed after her release, in Dapchi, Nigeria, Wednesday March. 21, 2018. Witnesses say Boko Haram militants have returned an unknown number of the 110 girls who were abducted from their Nigeria school a month ago. So in the early hours of today, they did return the girls and most of them went to their parents,” he said. The girls were meet- ing with counselors at a nearby hospital, and “will be quarantined and be counseled before they go back to their schools,” he added. The fighters had rolled into Dapchi in nine vehicles and the girls were left in the center of town. As terrified residents emerged from their homes, the extrem- ists issued an ominous warning, resident Ba’ana Musa told the AP. “We did it out of pity. And don’t ever put your daughters in school again,” the residents said the extremists told them. Boko Haram means “Western education is forbidden” in the Hausa language. Nigeria’s government said 101 of the 110 school- girls had been confirmed freed and that the num- ber “would be updated after the remaining ones have been documented.” The latest mass ab- duction is thought to have been carried out by a Boko Haram splin- ter group aligned with the Islamic State group that has criticized the leader of the main Boko Haram organization for targeting civilians and has focused instead on military and Western targets. The release came a day after an Amnesty Inter- national report accused the Nigerian military of failing to heed several warnings of an immi- nent attack on Feb. 19 during which the girls were seized. The mili- tary has called the report an “outright falsehood.” Wednesday’s miracu- lous development also brought renewed focus to the 100 Chibok girls still missing since April 2014. 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Metro fully complies with Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and related stat- utes and regulations in all programs and activi- ties. For more informa- tion, or to obtain a Title VI Complaint Form, see www.oregonmetro.gov. bok parents’ association. “This development gives us light that ... we can take a message to our other colleagues at home that yes, what we have seen will give us hope that our own (girls) too will be released,” Zannah said. METRO On-Call Repair and Maintenance Paving, Seal Coating and Striping ITB 3479 Metro, a metropolitan service district organized under the laws of the State of Oregon and the Metro Charter, located at 600 NE Grand Avenue, Portland, OR 97232- 2736, is hereby inviting bids for On-Call Maintenance and Repair Paving and Seal Coating for the Metro visitor ven- ues, facilities and rental properties. Sealed bids are due no later than 2:00 p.m., April 11, 2018 in Metro’s business offices at 600 NE Grand Avenue, Portland, OR 97232- 2736, Attention: Karen Slusarenko, Procurement Analyst, ITB 3479. The work will include Metro visitor venues, facilities and rental properties paving, seal coating, and striping to parking lots, roadways and pathways. Certain visitor venues and facilities such as the Oregon Zoo have yearly maintenance requirements to repair the parking lot, roadways and pathways. Evaluation of asphalt for removal, replacement, repairs, overlay and seal coating of roadways, parking lots and paths is completed every spring. In addition, Metro visitor venues and facilities may require paving, seal coating, and paint striping for park- ing and traffic control services. 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