Senate tells Buhari; Save Nigerians from Libyan slave traders,

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ABUJA —President Muhammadu Buhari has said the Federal Government was hoping to evacuate identified stranded Nigerians in Libya back to Nigeria and rehabilitate them.
This came on the heels of reports that hundreds of African refugees and migrants passing through Libya were being bought and sold into slavery.
(FILES) This file photo taken on November 03, 2016 shows African women aboard the Topaz Responder ship run by Maltese NGO Moas and the Red Cross after a rescue operation of migrants and refugees on November 3, 2016, off the Libyan coast in the Mediterranean Sea. The arrive in their hundreds every month, their heads full of dreams of new lives in Europe. In reality, many of them are destined for years of sexual slavery.
Meanwhile, no fewer than 11,600 migrants of Nigeria origin are facing repatriation from different parts of the world, Hajia Sadia Umar Faruk, Chief Executive Officer of the National Commission for Refugees, Migrants and Internally Displaced Persons, has said.
Speaking while interacting with the Nigerian community in Abidjan, Cote d’Ivoire, on Tuesday night, Buhari, who is in Abidjan for the 5th European Union-African Union (EU-AU) Summit, said those still there would be evacuated.
Reno Omokri, former media aide to immediate past president, Goodluck Jonathan, has commended President Buhari for his prompt action on the slave trade business in Libya.
DAILY POST reports that 234 Nigerians 242 migrants were repatriated from Libya following several “save our soul” messages from Nigerian migrants stranded in the country.

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