- 28-year-old Nigerian graduate was one of the illegal migrants who were recently brought back home from Libya
- Nwaka John recounts how he drank someone’s urine to survive on the desert
A 28-year-old graduate, who recently returned home from Libya, has come out to briefly narrate some of his horrible experiences before he was brought back to Nigeria.
Identified as Nwaka John, the young man disclosed that he left Nigeria on Friday, June 23, in the hope of going to Europe. Unfortunately John ended up in Libya where he worked as a slave.
Speaking on some of his challenges before arriving Libya, John disclosed that he drank someone else’s urine on the desert in order to survive. He added that out of 104 of them that left Nigeria, only 81 of them made it to Libya.
28-year-old Libya returnee Nwaka John
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John said: “I spent 5 days in the desert where I have to drink somebody’s urine in order to survive. Out of 104 of us that started the journey only 81 made it to Libya, 23 others died in the desert. This journey is indeed a suicide mission.”
This information was shared by the International Organization for Migration (IOM) Nigeria, on their Facebook profile on Wednesday, December 27. They shared John’s picture with the caption:
“Nwaka John 28 from Imo state left Nigeria in June 23, 2017 with the intention to enter Europe but ended up being stranded in Libya. The computer engineering graduate was among the 157 Nigeria migrants that were brought home by IOM from Libya on Wednesday 27 December 2017. This latest flight is the 30th chartered flight IOM has organized so far in 2017 that has brought home 6327 stranded Nigeria migrants from Libya under the EU Funded project “Migration Governance and Reintegration in Nigeria.”
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It was earlier reported that on Wednesday, December 27, Libya government kept about 142 illegal migrants on a flight back to Guinea with the help of the U.N. migration agency.
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