Libya: Charly Boy, in chains, leads protesters to foreign affairs ministry

#OurMumuDonDo, a civil society organisation, Monday stormed the ministry of foreign affairs over the Libyan slave trade.

The protesters had a banner which read ‘Slave trade in Africa must stop’. They were bound in chains and had their lips sealed.

Speaking with journalists, Charles Oputa, leader of the protesters, said the Nigerian youth should to be alive to their responsibilities and stand up against any form of injustice or oppression.

Oputa, also known as Charly Boy, said the future of the country is in the hands of the youth.

Deji Adeyanju, another protester, explained that they were at the ministry to find out what the federal government is doing about the plight of Nigerians in Libya.

“We are here to highlight to the government plight of our fellow brothers in Libya,” Adeyanju said.

“We are here to ask , what government is doing? what step have they taken and what is the situation of Nigerians there? How many Nigerians have been brought back?”

Iliya Danladi Fachano, head of mission to Libya and Malta, said the mission is doing everything possible to ensuring that Nigerians migrants who are repatriated back to the country.

“We visit the detention camps where illegal migrants are detained by the Libya authorities. There are other nationalities in these camps like Ghanaian, Gambian and others. So Nigerian embassy visit that camps to identify its own .

“We identify , register and give them emergency travel certificate . We get their details through International Organisation for Migration ( IOM ) who will tell us that the number of Africans are in this detention camp and this is the number of Nigerians among the detainees.

“The mission carried out the visitation on a regular basis noting that after scheduling their flights the mission would send their manifest to the consular department in Nigeria.”