Nigeria’s president said on
Wednesday the government had started bringing stranded citizens home from
Libya
after a global outcry over reports that migrants there were being sold into
slavery. Muhammadu Buhari’s comments came days after CNN aired footage that
appeared to show men being auctioned as farm hands in Libya after being
smuggled across the Sahara.
Nigerians returnees from Libya
Libya’s U.N.-backed government has said it is investigating. “The situation in
Libya, of people being sold into slavery, is appalling and unacceptable. We
will do everything to protect our citizens wherever they might be,” Buhari
wrote on his Twitter account. Nigeria had “started bringing back home all
Nigerians stranded in Libya and elsewhere,” he added.
The U.N.’s International
Organization for Migration said 239 Nigerians flew home from Tripoli on
Tuesday. It has said Nigerian migrants risk exploitation, detention and abuse
as they head north to Libya, hoping to cross the Mediterranean to Europe.
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