{"id":27882,"date":"2018-03-27T06:32:00","date_gmt":"2018-03-27T06:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.acnmalta.org\/?p=27882"},"modified":"2018-03-27T07:31:30","modified_gmt":"2018-03-27T07:31:30","slug":"nigeria-100-schoolgirls-abducted-boko-haram-last-month-released-acn-malta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/acnmalta.org\/_oldsite\/2018\/03\/27\/nigeria-100-schoolgirls-abducted-boko-haram-last-month-released-acn-malta\/","title":{"rendered":"NIGERIA: 100 schoolgirls abducted by Boko Haram\u00a0 last month are released -ACN Malta"},"content":{"rendered":"<style type=\"text\/css\"><\/style><h2><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>NIGERIA<br \/>\n100 schoolgirls abducted by Boko Haram\u00a0 last month are released<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Nigerian terrorist group Boko Haram has released 101 of the 110 girls abducted from a boarding school last month. Government sources said that the number \u201cwould be updated after the remaining ones have been documented.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The militants drove into Dapchi early in the morning. in nine vehicles and the girls were left in the centre of town, outside their school. Residents in Dapchi fled when they heard that Boko Haram vehicles were heading toward their town. &#8220;We fled but, from our hiding, we could see them and surprisingly, we saw our girls getting out of the vehicles,&#8221; said one of the residents.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Before they left, militants told residents they \u201cdid it out of pity\u201d and issued a warning: \u201cDon\u2019t ever put your daughters in school again.\u201d Boko Haram means \u201cWestern education is forbidden\u201d in the Hausa language.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Some of the released girls returned to their homes in surrounding villages. Family members were headed for the town on Wednesday morning. Bashir Manzo, whose 16-year-old daughter was among those kidnapped on 19 Feb confirmed that his daughter was among those freed. \u201cAs I speak to you there is jubilation in Dapchi,\u201d he said. Parents said the girls had been taken for medical check-ups after their ordeal.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Three of the kidnapped told reporters that they were not mistreated during their time in captivity and were given food to cook. However, they said \u201cWhen we were being taken away, five of us died on the way. Fatima Gremah, 13, who was among those released, said \u201cBoko Haram said we were lucky we were young and also Muslims. One of us who is a Christian has been left behind. They said <a href=\"https:\/\/buyingcelebrexmeds.com\">celebrex online<\/a> they would keep her until she converted. If she converts, they will release her. She is the only one among us left behind.\u201d From details of the girls released by federal government shortly after their abduction, Liah Sharibu is the girl still being held.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Fatima said they were held on an island on Lake Chad, which is a known stronghold for Boko Haram fighters loyal factional leader Abu Mus\u2019ab al-Barnawi. \u201cThey just told us on Saturday to get onto boats. We spent three days on the water before coming to shore, then they put us in vehicles and said they were taking us back home,\u201d she said. \u201cThey brought us back this morning, dropped us outside the motor park and said we should all go home and not go to the military because they will claim to have rescued us.\u201d Bashir Manzo, who heads a parents\u2019 support group in Dapchi, said:\u201cThese girls were not accompanied by any security personnel.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The release of the Dapchi girls comes a day after an Amnesty International report accused the Nigerian military of failing to heed several warnings of the imminent attack last month. The military has called the report an &#8220;outright falsehood.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Financial motives were probably behind the Dapchi kidnapping following government ransom payments made to Boko Haram to secure the release of some of the Chibok captives. However, Information Minister, Lai Mohammed, said: \u201cNo ransoms were paid.\u201d A statement claimed the girls were released \u201cthrough back-channel efforts and with the help of some friends of the country, and it was unconditional\u201d but did not elaborate further.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Military operations in and around Dapchi had been suspended \u201cto ensure free passage\u201d of the girls and also to ensure \u201cthat lives were not lost\u201d, he added Nigeria\u2019s President Muhammadu Buhari said last week the government had \u201cchosen negotiation\u201d to secure the return of the Dapchi girls rather than use military force.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The Islamic State (IS) group affiliate has not claimed responsibility for the abduction but given the location, Barnawi and his fighters are thought to be responsible. Boko Haram has used kidnapping as a weapon of war during its nearly nine-year insurgency which has claimed at least 20,000 lives and made more than two million others homeless.<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><em><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">ACN Malt<\/span>a<\/strong><\/em><\/h5>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NIGERIA 100 schoolgirls abducted by Boko Haram\u00a0 last month are released &nbsp; Nigerian terrorist group Boko Haram has released 101 of the 110 girls abducted from a boarding school last month. Government sources said that the number \u201cwould be updated after the remaining ones have been documented.\u201d The militants drove into Dapchi early in the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":27884,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-e-newsletters"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>NIGERIA: 100 schoolgirls abducted by Boko Haram\u00a0 last month are released -ACN Malta - Aid to the Church in Need (Malta)<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/acnmalta.org\/_oldsite\/2018\/03\/27\/nigeria-100-schoolgirls-abducted-boko-haram-last-month-released-acn-malta\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"NIGERIA: 100 schoolgirls abducted by Boko Haram\u00a0 last month are released -ACN Malta - Aid to the Church in Need (Malta)\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"NIGERIA 100 schoolgirls abducted by Boko Haram\u00a0 last month are released &nbsp; Nigerian terrorist group Boko Haram has released 101 of the 110 girls abducted from a boarding school last month. 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