LIBYA SLAVERY: 136 NIGERIAN RETURNEES ARRIVE PORTHARCOURT.
Speaking on behalf of the returnees, Joy Job thanked the Federal Government for rescuing them and fulfilling its promise of bringing Nigerians home. She described her experience in Libya as “horrible, sorrowful and unforgettable.’’
She said that she was sold into slavery by a Nigerian who told her that he found a hair dressing work for her in Kano, not knowing that she had been sold into slavery to another Nigerian living in Libya.
“Nigerians are selling fellow Nigerians into slavery in Libya; we are sold from one person to another, Libya people will buy us from our people and use us for any kind of work they like. I did not know that where I was in Kano was a boundary between Nigeria and another country until I saw myself surrounded with gun’, she said.
“My abductors told me that if I did not agree to go to Libya, they will kill me, so I had no option than to agree with them. They gave us Nigerian account numbers to pay in the money they charged us before they freed us from their custody,” she said.
Job called on Nigerian youth still nursing the idea of travelling out of the country illegally to drop it and manage life with whatever they see in the country and also appealed to the Federal Government to continue with the evacuation in order to save many Nigerians who were still in different prisons and camps in Libya.
