83 of the 142 Nigerians deported from Libya on Monday were received by the Edo State government. They were received and lodged in a hotel with a view to rehabilitate them by the chairman, task force on trafficking, Prof. (Mrs.) Yinka Omoregbe, who is the Attorney-General and Commissioner for Justice in the state
A 17-year-old girl identified as Blessing Sunday, has narrated her ordeal and how she survived deadly experience in the desert in her in order to get to Europe.
She was in tears when she explained how her father sold his belongings to raise money to bail her after she was kidnapped and kept in a cell in Libya.
Blessing stated that she dropped out of school in Junior Secondary School to learn hair-dressing, after which a lady offered to help her travel abroad. She said several persons died in the three Hilux vans they boarded from Kano to Libya due to hunger and thirst.
Another returnee who gave his name as Micheal Ogbebor also explained his own ordeal, he said worked in a car wash for eight years to save N300, 000 in order to travel out.“When we got to Libya, I was kidnapped. They made me go call my father and he sold his property to set me free. I am the last child of the family and we don’t have anything at home now.There was no food or water in the trip. You see people dying. We bought provision and water and I managed my own in order to survive. My father sold all his property to enable me get to the seaside. I didn’t enter boat on the sea".
“I spent eight years to save the N300,000 I used to travel. In Libya, people were always ‘kalabushing’ each other, that is tracking each other’s boat. I have not entered the boat when I was rescued and brought back. I wanted to jump from a storey building when I fell. They came and saw that I was finished so they left me. It was the UN that came and took me to the hospital.”
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