Slavery Scare From Libya Made Nigeria Flew Migrants Home

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According to Nigeria President on Wednesday he said that the Government had stated bringing Nigerian citizens that have been stranded in Libya for quite long back home after a global outcry of reviews that this migrant are been forced into slavery.

Nigerian President comments came days after CNN aired footage that proofed that men are being auctioned as farm hand tool in Libya after being smuggled across the Sahara Desert.

An on-going investigation backed by U.N. government in said to be in place right in Libya.

“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.