The returnee, who possesses an Ordinary National Diploma (OND) in
Mass Communication from the Delta State Polytechnic, Oghara, regretted that she
joined the trip, after paying over N200,000 to an anchor-man in an unscrupulous
manner on June 22, last year.
She was among the first batch of 5,499 Nigerian youths, out of
which 78 are indigenes of Delta State, that were rescued by the
high-powered delegation of the Federal Government led by the Minister of
Internal Affairs, under the auspices of the European Union (EU) in conjunction
with the National Agency for the Prohibition
of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP) in
January, this year.
Esther lamented how they were being fed with addictive foods inside the
cell to make them sleep off and forgot about their meals.
Esther, who narrated how they travelled by land from Kano to Niger,
through Agades before they got to Libya, confirmed in Asaba yesterday that prostitution
was the order of the day among Nigerian girls.
She said: “From the point of departure in Nigeria to the landing point
in Libya, it was prostitution all the way. I have no intention of staying in
Libya, but my plan to pass through Libya failed. A lot of our girls go into
prostitution when they are hungry. To get a loaf of 'Umzr' bread to assuage
their hunger, our girls give sex to Libyan men at random. So, many get pregnant
through unwarranted sex.”
Her views were corroborated by another returnee, Okafor Abrahim,
who hails from Umunede in Ika North East, Delta State, but said he embarked on
the journey to Libya in November 2016, having paid over N150,000 to a
middleman.
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