‘My 6-month Libya experience more than 4 years in poly, NYSC’

A Libya returnee, Mr. Tony Taira, has said that the lessons he learnt during his six months of suffering in Libya are more than those he leant in four years at a higher institution.

Taira said this in Benin shortly after he arrived at the hotel where he was lodged alongside other returnees by the Edo State Anti-Human Trafficking Taskforce.

“My experiences in Libya are a lesson and training for me. It was more than my four years of academic sessions in the higher institution and more than the NYSC training. These six months I spent in Libya was tough, rough and hard,” he said.

He said despite the torture and hardship, one good thing he learnt in Libya was that, there should be no wastage in all aspect of life because an Arab man does not give out his money for nothing.

“I do not waste things anymore. It is a very big thing I learnt in Libya,” he said.

The returnee, a HND graduate of Business Administration and Management from Delta State Polytechnic, said he paid N500,000 as ransom to regain his freedom from the hands of his captors in Libya.

“Surviving in the Libya desert could be best described as grace of God as many able-bodied young men lost their lives in an attempt to cross the desert. I was kidnapped and forced to pay N500,000 before I regained freedom after much torture,” he said.

Taira appealed to government and individual Nigerians to assist him with funds to enable him go into farming to make a living.