*Libya’s hell for black skinned people, says returnee
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| Libya returnees |
Mr Sunday Ikeah, 25, a Libya returnee has
explained that he decided to return home to Nigeria and try his luck in
surviving and making success of his work after witnessing mass shooting and
killings of Africans by Libya policemen.
Ikeah, from Imo State, who specialized in
building pillars, confessed to have spent N800, 000 to get to Libya. When he
eventually got to Libya, he couldn’t get any meaningful job.
Ikeah was arrested while returning from
work. He was held by Libya police until he coughed up N200, 000.
He said: “My target was to go to Italy after
making some money in Libya. I would get a contact to move me to Italy. I paid
N300, 000 to a boat operator. But on the day of my moving, police came to
the place to raid people. They killed many Africans that day. They
were shooting at sight. I was able to escape that incident and from there, I
made up my mind to go to the deportation camp. It was from the deportation came
that I returned to Nigeria.”
Another returnee, Mr Efosa Edomwonyi, 35, introduced
himself as an editor of music and movies. He noted that his major concern was
how he would be able to put his Libya experiences into film very soon, now that
he is back in Nigeria.
Edomwonyi, with a smile on his face,
believed that whatever experience any man passed through in life, was for a purpose
and reason, with the bottom-line being to better his or her tomorrow.
Edomwonyi said: “I was doing very well
before I travelled outside the country in the quest for greener pastures. I
spent N500, 000 through a contact in my base in Benin, Edo State. Most
of those guys who are into this traveling stuffs are not using their real names,
otherwise, I would have exposed them. They are very wicked people and knew how
bad the environment over there was. But they are only after the money they
would get from travelers. Yes, money they make from gullible money who believed
that going overseas would change their lives for a better tomorrow.”
Edomwonyi said that he entered over 23 types of
vehicles before getting to Libya. He took to writing his experiences in a
notebook; everything in the note book will be translated into his forthcoming
movie.
He said: “My movie will be like an advice
to our youths; there is no hope overseas. It is not a journey worthy embarking.
Since I left Benin on June 28, it has been from one
suffering to another. If one person commits a crime, everybody would be
punished because we are all black. My movie will say it all very soon. I want
to use this opportunity to thank the Federal Government of Nigeria for its
efforts in bringing us back home.
“In one of the camps where we were kept, if anybody
wants to buy things outside the camp, you would have to bribe the guards
up to N2000 before they allow you to go outside. The funny thing is that you
might want to buy something of just N500. Most of us that were there, made up our
minds to come back home. Libya is hell for any person with a black skin. Nobody
can escape from that camp.
One of the returnees, Jackson Etuk James,
said that his mother sold their piece of land for N750, 000 in other to
facilitate his journey to Libya. Like others, his story was one of horror and
regrets.
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