242 Nigerian Migrants Stranded In Libya Are Finally Back Home

The 242 Nigerian Migrants all stranded in Libya have finally been returned to their home country. According to the Nigerian officials, the 242 migrants arrived at Lagos International airport on a Libyan Airlines flight at around 9:00 pm local time (3:00pm ET) on Tuesday. Some of the 242 men and women who returned had been in Libyan Detention Camp while others willingly approached the Nigerian embassy in Libya to return home because of hardship there, Among them were women carrying children and at least one man in a wheelchair.

Meanwhile, senior special adviser on foreign and Diaspora affairs to the Nigerian President Abike Dabiri, reviewed that about 5,000 Nigerians have already been brought back home from Libya in the past year. The President has said any Nigerian who wants to come back should be brought back, Some agencies like IOM has been helping out too.

“Yes the government had been working with the IOM, the Nigerian National Commission for Refugees, the local agencies and , Migrants and Internally Displaced Persons (NCFRMI) to bring the stranded Nigerians back to their homeland.” Dabiri added

The NCFRMI said it has been processing the return of Nigerians from Libya on an average between eight and 10 flights each month.

According The migrant crisis in Libya is once again receiving international attention according to the recent recent reporting by CNN. They revealed that African migrants were being sold as slaves in the capital,Tripoli, and elsewhere even till this recent years.