The fifth batch of 136 Nigerian returnees from Libya
arrived Port Harcourt International Airport aboard Med-View Airline
5N-MAB in the early hours of Tuesday.
The returnees were received by Mr Martins Ejike,
South-South Zonal Coordinator, National Emergency Management Agency
(NEMA), who was represented by Mr Ebhodaghe Eric,
“They are all intact, except one of them who we are taking
to the hospital with the ambulance to find out why she is unstable,” he
said.
Ejike, said that few returnees in the fourth batch were
still left at the centre, adding that they are from Osun and Ekiti
states.
He appeared to the state governments to hasten the process of picking their indigenes from the centre.
Speaking to newsmen, one of the returnees,
Joy Job described her experience in Libya as “horrible and unforgettable.’’
Joy Job described her experience in Libya as “horrible 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. Unknown to
her, 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," she said.
“I did not know that where I was in Kano was a boundary
between Nigeria and another country until I saw myself surrounded with
guns. 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 advised Nigerian youths against travelling out of the country illegally.
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