“The horrific
images of the serial maltreatment of Nigerians in Libya have become a great
embarrassment to all those whose humanity is still alive.
In recent times
there have been reports of killings, brutalisation, sexual violence and all
sorts of degrading actions being visited upon our citizens.
It is so tragic
that Nigerians who walk tall in world capitals years back and were treated like
Kings and Queens are now being treated less than human beings .
About the most
terrifying is a documentary on CNN showing our citizens being auctioned for as
low as $400.
About 10,000
Nigerians have died in 2017 while trying to migrate illegally to the
Mediterranean sea.
In all these, there
has been no concrete steps taken by our government to show that we care about
our citizens and halt these barbaric actions against our citizen.
Women Arise calls
on the Federal Government to rise in aid of our citizens by using all
diplomatic channels to prevail on the Libyan authorities to ensure the dignity
of our people while effort is being made to take them out of that fiendish
environment.
But more
importantly is the need to ensure we make our country conducive for our
citizens to live in.
We must build a
country where our people have opportunities to prosper and lead useful and
productive and will only travel on leisure and business and not as illegal
migrants desperate to live anywhere other than Nigeria.
Our authorities
must know that it is failure of governance that is exposing our people to these
degrading conditions out of our shores.
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