The Senior Special Assistant to the President on Foreign Affairs and Diaspora, Mrs Abike Dabiri-Erewa, says that 116 of the Nigerian migrants caught in Libyan slave camps would be repatriated home soon.
Dabiri-Erewa said this in an announcement by her media assistant, Abdur-Rahman Balogun on Sunday in Abuja.
She said that the Federal Government and the International Organization for Migration have found the confinement camps of the Nigerians, and offered to bring those eager back home.
The Nigeria Mission in Tripoli, she stated, had followed the vagrants to Osama Detention Center, Zawiya , Libya.
As indicated by her, 116 Nigerian transients have been prepared online by the Nigeria Mission and IOM for repatriation back to Nigeria.
Be that as it may, 24 of them demanded they should get to Europe.
She said that Federal Government moved to protect the confined transients after their request for help through video cut from Libya on July 8.
In the video, the stranded Nigerians who hidden their countenances said that their last goal is Europe yet was blocked by the security organizations in Libya and secured up dehumanizing conditions.
The vagrants had in the video said they were being tormented to death day by day under a dehumanizing condition.
"We are passing on here. Come and protect us. Europe is our last goal however we are caught in Libya, subjecting us to barbaric treatment", one of the Nigerians said in the video.
Dabiri-Erewa said that 9,438 Nigerian vagrants had so far been repatriated by the Federal Government and the IOM.
She gave affirmation that President Muhammadu Buhari would keep on ensuring that every single stranded vagrant willing to return home are brought back.
President Muhammadu Buhari early this year coordinated the quick clearing of Nigerians from Libya.
As indicated by her, those that have been brought back are being profiled and enlisted in different specialized and professional instructional hubs with important offices and non-legislative associations
She engaged Nigerian young people to profit themselves the open doors in the nation as against taking a chance with their lives to look for a non-existing and lethal greener fields abroad
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