Another batch of 149 Nigerians stranded in Libya have returned home.
They were brought back in Buraq Airlines Boeing 737-8000 aircraft with registration number 5A-DMG by the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) under its Assisted Voluntary Return Programme and received by the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA).
The returnees arrived at the Cargo Wing of the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos, at about 1.20 am on Friday.
Mr. Ibrahim Farinloye, spokesperson for NEMA, South West Zone, said the majority of the returnees came back from Tripoli, the capital city of the volatile North African country.
Among them were 81 adult males, 56 adult females, two male children, eight male infants, one female child and two female infants.
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One of the returnees, Ms. Aminat Sunday, told journalists that she worked as a maid during her stay in Libya. She said that she was driven to Libya by family problems and persuasion from her trafficker.
Twenty-nine-year-old Sunday who hails from Ifo Local Government Area (LGA) of Ogun state, said she regretted embarking on the journey as the experience was not pleasant for her.
She disclosed that she paid her trafficker with her full year salary after arriving in Libya.
“I was working as a housemaid cleaning tiles but the work made me to come back home because it is very stressful, tiring and have serious health problems on my body.
“To be sincere, Nigeria is far better than Libya, I have learnt my lessons in the wrong way but thank God I am still alive,” she said.
She, therefore advised other youths to learn from her experience urging them to shun the temptation for irregular or illegal migration in search of greener pastures.
