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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
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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.
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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.
Coincidentally
some of the Chibok fam-
ilies had already made
plans to travel to Dapchi
that day to lend their
moral support before
it was known that most
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gives us light that ... we
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seen will give us hope
that our own (girls) too
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