Gift Peters, one of the 171 Nigerians who voluntarily returned home from Libya on Tuesday has recounted how she was sold into slavery in the North African country.
The woman who arrived the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos on a chartered flight said she got to Libya 11 months ago after being deceived that she was being taken to Germany.
“When I got to Libya, it was not in my mind to continue with the journey. So I asked the person that took me to return me to Nigeria but he started maltreating me and sold me to someone who has a connection house in Libya where we were maltreated daily.
“If we don’t want to work, they will start maltreating us. They will do you something that you will wish to die.
“Those who they sold us to, sometimes, use iron and start burning us. At times, they will instruct our fellow ladies to urinate for us to drink,” the Delta State indigene said amidst tears.
According to her, she managed to eventually contact her family in Nigeria and was fortunate to make it back alive unlike many of her peers who joined her on the ill-fated journey.
