Nigerians Are Involved In The Slavery In Libya – Sunday Anyaegbunam

Some of the freed Nigerian slaves in Libya have opened up about their fellow countrymen being part of the slave trade cartel.

They described the Nigerians involved in the slave business as more wicked than the Libyans and other participants.
Recounting their ordeal, some of the returnees said they also sold by Nigerians.

“Nigerians and Libyans are doing the business like they are one big happy family,” Harrison Okotie, 32, said.

Another returnee, Sunday Anyaegbunam, who hails from Edo state, said they were sold twice by Nigerians during their nine-day journey through the desert.

He said their Nigerian “burger” (trafficker) sold them to a set of Libyan traffickers at Agadez, Niger, where they were subsequently sold to another Nigerian who took them to Sabha, Libya.

He recalled, “We were made to contact our families on the phone and I had to ensure the payment of N400,000 for my release and N300,000 for my wife.

“The Nigerians selling people in Libya are more wicked than many of the Arabs. I have never seen people so heartless as the Nigerians who bought and sold me.

“There are many of them in Agadez and Sabha, who are making so much money from selling their own people. But there are other West Africans doing the business too.

“When you approach them and say, ‘please, my brother, help me’, they would tell you, ‘no brother in the jungle.”

Esosa Osas, another Nigerian who was in Libya for six months, said she also confirmed that Nigerians were selling other Nigerians in Libya.

“You dare not talk to them, else they would beat you and lock you up.

“I noticed that the connection houses were also controlled by Nigerian women,” she said.