Boko Haram is feared to have kidnapped over 100 women last week from a secondary school in North Eastern Nigeria. It has been reported by officials in Nigeria that as many as 76 women have been rescued and returned since that Wednesday night.

Boko Haram is the same jihadist militant group who captured over 270 girls four years ago from their school in Chibok, Nigeria. While some have escaped or have been returned after mediations, there are around 100 girls still being held with the group.

The militant group developed into a Jihadist group in 2009 with one of their main goals being a halting of westernization in Nigerian society. The leader of one of the group factions, Abuakar Shekau, said of the Chibok girls, “We captured the Chibok girls while they were being taught western education. They realized that western education, its rules and regulations that taught them, is bad.” The name Boko Haram is typically translated to mean, “western education is forbidden.”

The Nigerian President, Muhammadu Buhari, immediately mobilized the police in order to quickly find the girls, saying, “I share the anguish of all the parents and guardians of the girls that remain unaccounted for. I would like to assure them that we are doing all in our power to ensure the safe return of all the girls.”

As for relatives of the girls, a state of confusion and fear persists. “Our girls have been missing for two days and we don’t know their whereabouts,” told Abubakar Shehu to the Telegraph last Thursday. Her niece is among those who were captured and are missing. “We are beginning to harbor fears the worst might have happened.”