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Edo State Govt. Ready to Curb Migration as Returnee Identifies Trafficker

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Dec 1, 2017
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The Edo state government, worried by continuous migration by indigenes of the state to different European countries has begun moves aimed at stemming migration from the state through routes that have taken several lives of such migrants.

At the 2018 budget presentation to the House of Assembly recently, Governor Godwin Obaseki said no fewer than 10,000 indigenes of the state were trafficked in the last one year.

He disclosed that more than 3,000 deaths were recorded among the trafficked persons.

Edo state is generally recognized as the capital of human trafficking, with hundreds of young girls hoodwinked into sex slavery in Europe. Parents are known to sell their houses to offer their children to human traffickers, paying huge sums of money into the voluntary bondage scam.

Obaseki said his administration is willing to support any initiative that will curb human trafficking. He said the way youths travel out of the country to be used as slaves in their host countries is unacceptable.

He described human trafficking as “modern day slavery’’, declaring that one of the goals of his administration was to build the capacity of youths to enable them to compete favourably with their counterparts across the world.

In his words “For us as a government, we believe we should reduce unemployment and also help to reduce illegal migration. Human trafficking is not acceptable, that is why we are trying to gather not only national, but international support to check this menace,”.

Meanwhile, a Nigerian returnee from Libya has revealed that 25 compatriots, ferried from Nigeria to Libya by a trafficker identified as Charles, perished in the Sahara Desert, in the course of the journey.

The returnee, who identified himself as Alex Otoide, from Edo state, said seven members of the group died inside a Libyan jail.

According to him “We were 55 that travelled from here to Libya, 25 people died in the desert. More than seven people died from hunger and thirst inside the prison”, Otoide spoke with journalists in a government camp in Benin City.

He said the human trafficking agent, Charles collected the N500, 000 from him with a promise of a better life in Europe. He regretted that instead of Europe, he ended up in a Libyan jail.

He said but for providence, things could have been worse for him as he witnessed the sale of 20 Nigeria girls in the prison where they were all kept.

“They sold about 20 girls in the night. I saw it. It was God that saved me. I left Nigeria with N500,000  I spent six months in Libya jail after the man that took my money ran away.

Many of the returnees look skinny and exhausted while some of the women among them came back to the country with babies, whose fathers are not known.

Charles, the returnees said, is running a transit camp in Libya for those who wanted to travel illegally across the Mediterranean to Europe.

He regularly made a trip back to Nigeria where he persuaded desperate young men and women that he can help them to get to Europe from Libya for a fee of about N500, 000.

But according to the deportees, after collecting the money, Charles usually abandoned them in Libya.

The human trafficking kingpin reportedly operated several bank accounts with different names in Nigeria through which he collected money from victims.

They alleged Charles kept Nigerians for days without food in his camp in Libya. Many of the migrants don’t even make it to Libya as they died of exhaustion in the Sahara desert, according to the migrants.

Osas Blessing, one of the returnees said Charles is among those nicknamed “burgers” or “connection man” on the Libya route.

In Blessing’s words “I gave Charles N450, 000 but when I got to Libya he increased it to N600, 000. He is very wicked. He does not care for human life. He is a Benin man. He will say if you die you die. He pushed us into the sea at the wrong time. I heard he just left Nigeria with new passengers to Libya. He has frustrated many Nigerians.”

 

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