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More than 142 famished looking
indigenes of Edo State were ferried back to Benin, the state capital
after their incarceration and woeful deportation to the country from Libya and
other countries.
This deportation came barely 24
hours after Nigerians received news of the 26 girls that died in the
Mediterranean sea in Italy.
The deportees, 83, were said to have
agreed to be taken back to their homes, under the auspices of Edo State Government.
They were conveyed in over 12 buses from Lagos State, shortly after their arrival
to Nigeria.
The government was said to have
lodged them at hotel, pending onward movement to their various homes. Some,
had, allegedly refused to move, claiming feeling of shame and tragic
disappointments overseas.
Some of them narrated their harrowing
experiences and deaths en-route to Libya.
Miss Rosemary Ugogo 29, from Kwale
in Ndokwa West council area of Delta State said: “My experience was so
terrible; my going there was terrible and coming back was terrible. The woman,
who took me to Libyan, died of exhaustion in the desert on our way. There was
no water. About 120 of us, both males and females, were kept in one room, where
five persons ate a plate of food even as we defecate in the same place.”
Michael Ogbebor, who had
Plaster of Paris on his two hands, said he broke his two hands when the 'White
house' in Suprata they were staying was attacked.
Michael said he used
to wash cars in Lagos from where he raised the sum of N300,000 with which he
traveled to Libya.
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