23-year-old Anuge Blessing from Edo State was among stranded migrants recently brought home from Libya with assistance from the International Organization for Migration (IOM)
“So many people died in the #desert” Anuge told IOM Nigeria.
Meanwhile, Nigeria’s former president, Olusegun Obasanjo, has blamed the failure of African leaders for the slave trade in Libya.
Obasanjo made the statement on Thursday, December 8, while speaking at the opening ceremony of the 2017 Annual Conference of the Comptroller General of Immigration of the Nigerian Immigration Service (NIS) held at Abeokuta, Ogun state.
The former president described the condition faced by some Nigerian youths in Libya as dehumanizing, adding that the occurrence in Libya ought to be condemned as a failure of leadership at all levels.
