By Afeez HanafiAnother set of 128 stranded Nigerians repatriated from Libya have arrived at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Ikeja, Lagos. Two of the female returnees, 29-year-old Tosin and Blessing, narrated their traumatic experience in the hands of their traffickers informally referred to as ‘burgers’. They recalled how the traffickers forced them into prostitution to recoup a combined sum of N6.7m claimed to have been spent on their travel to Libya. Tosin, a mother of one, said her trafficker used as a commercial sex worker to recover N2.2m before selling her to another trafficker who in turn made N1m from her through prostitution. “My trafficker paid for the journey from Nigeria to Libya which started on February 26, 2016.

Source: Libya Today March 02, 2022 21:33 UTC