A Libya returnee, Ms Adaeze Nweze, has urged the Federal Government to block exit routes of illegal migrations some Nigerians ply in search of greener pastures in Europe through Libya.

The Imo State indigene said despite paying huge amount of money to flee Nigeria in search of greener pastures, many Nigerians have ended up being murdered and buried in Libya while their families still don’t know their whereabouts.

Nweze, one of the new batch of 161 Nigerians received from Libya by the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) made the plea while speaking to newsmen on her return.

Narrating her ordeal in the volatile North African country, she said she left Nigeria in 2015 with the help of a woman she paid N1.6 million in Libya without the knowledge of her husband because of hard life, saying her husband could not care for her three children.

She advised other Nigerians planning to embark on the journey to learn from the experience of those who have returned.

The returnee said she left Nigeria with pregnancy which she tried to abort about six times but it failed.

She narrated that she had twins but one of the twins, a boy, died, while she brought back the girl.

Nweze said:

“Presently, our girls paid up to N3 million to get to Libya now and most of them were killed.

“I witnessed where 10 of my friends were killed with guns and buried.

“I am in serious pains, a boy, Gift, who happened to be the only child of his parents was killed and the parents were not aware yet.

“I pray that if I could be assisted with little money to operate a restaurant, I will be grateful to Almighty God,’’ she said.

She, therefore, appealed to the government to find a way to block the exit routes of irregular migrations, saying many Nigerians have refused to learn from the narratives of those of them that returned.

The News Agency of Nigeria reports that NEMA on Thursday received another batch of 161 Nigerians from Libya barely 72 hours after a similar number came back from the country.

The Coordinator, NEMA Lagos Territorial Office, Idris Muhammed, who received the new returnees, said that they were brought back from Sabha, a city about 774 kilometres from Tripoli, the Libyan Capital.

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He said the Al Buraq Air with Flight No UZ389/03 and Registration No 5A-WAC arrived the Cargo Wing of the Murtala Muhammed International Airport at about 4:10 p.m.

“The breakdown of the returnees after profiling, indicated that there were 62 female adults, 18 female children and 11 female infants along with 48 male adults, 14 male children and eight male infants.

“They were brought back to Nigeria under the Voluntary Assisted Repatriation by the International Organisation for Migration and special assistance by the European Union.

“This batch has brought the total number of Libyan-distressed Nigerian returnees to 322 within 72 hours,’’ Muhammed said.

Other agencies that received the returnees include, the Nigeria Immigration Service, Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria and the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons.

 

NAN