Libyan returnees narrate ordeal as Anambra govt receives 11 indigenes

The Anambra State government has received 11 Indigenes of the state who just returned from Libya.

The returnees, 10 males and one female, were handed over to the State Emergency Management Agency (SEMA) by the federal government at the Port Harcourt International Airport after their arrival from Libya.

One of them, Ndubuisi Okwudiba, a graduate of Applied Microbiology from the Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka, said he left Nigeria for Libya in 2016, in search of greener pastures, but thanked God that he returned alive to tell his story.

Okwudiba, from Ogidi Idemili North Local Government Area of the state, regretted that many Nigerians were still languishing in various prisons in the Arab nation.

He commended the state government for coming to their rescue.

Another returnee, Chinedu Onyagu, described Libya as the worst country a foreigner could live in, adding that what was going on in that country was beyond humanitarian crisis.

Receiving them at the Professor Dora Akunyili Women Development Centre, Awka, the Commissioner for Social Welfare, Children and Women Affairs, Dr. Mrs. Victoria Chikwelu, said the state governor, Willie Obiano was determined to ensure that they are fully integrated into the society, having suffered much psychological and emotional trauma.