After reviewing the gruesome images and videos that have
populated the news media, today, the Senate took action on the ongoing slave
trade in Libya.
We passed a Resolution calling on the Ministry of Foreign
Affairs to summon the Libyan Ambassador to Nigeria to discuss ending the
ongoing Libyan slave trade of black Africans -- many of them of Nigerian
descent.
The Motion titled “Urgent Need to Protect Nigerian Citizens
from the Libya Slavery Auctions” also called on Mr. President to use the
opportunity of the ongoing EU-AU Summit in Abidjan to table the matter before
the Libyan delegation.
As a country it is a slap in the face if Nigerians can be
treated in this manner. Other countries are taking necessary actions to bring
back their citizens, we need to be doing the same.
In this regard, we resolved to condemn in totality the
current depravity and sheer animalism being exhibited by the Libyan slave
traders, who are selling fellow Africans as slaves.
We also urged the federal government to urgently investigate
how many Nigerians are affected and urgently commence the process of
repatriation and rehabilitation of Nigerian citizens caught up in these
despicable treatment and human rights abuses.
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