"They Pull Our Wombs Out And Ask Us To Sleep With Men" - Libya Returnees Recount Horrible Ordeals

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"They Pull Our Wombs Out And Ask Us To Sleep With Men" - Libya Returnees Recount Horrible Ordeals

Seven Libyan returnees at the weekend recounted their ordeal in Libya before their rescue.

They spoke in Abeokuta, Ogun State, at a session with former President, Olusegun Obasanjo during the maiden Youth Migration Summit themed “Curbing Youth Irregular Migration.”

One of the victims, Ubong Rosemary, mother of four, shared her story.

She said: “I am a native of Delta. I was living in Lagos before I lost my husband in a car crash. After I lost him; things became very hard for me and my children.

“I could not pay house rent or school fees for my children, so my children dropped out and I went back to help my mother who was a food vendor in the village in her one room apartment.

“We had a lot issues and quarreled. She had an accident and at point could not cook.

“I decided to go somewhere far because I could not provide for my kids. I wanted to go far from my predicament and met a lady who introduced me to a Madam.

“On the way to Libya; I lost my way and contact.
They were just carrying me with the people- I was like somebody lost. I didn’t know where I was going.

“I made it to Sabat and saw our fellow men and women selling women into prostitution. I was sold in Tripoli and not Sabat.

“I was not able to pay the cross money over the Mediterranean. They sold me to connection house. Someone else bought me.

“We were there for days until they pushed three boats into the Mediterranean. I saw two boats capsized before my very own eyes. Someone kidnapped us and jailed us.

“I was about to be killed as it was the very day I was to be killed that IOM raided us and saved us from death.

“What they did to us was very bad. The use sponge along with harmful chemicals like shampoo to clean the private parts of women.

“They push it into the women’s wombs and the wombs fall out, after that, they will put the womb back in again and urge women to continue to sleep with the men there.”

Rosemary said that she could not forgive herself for abandoning her four children with her mother who was still alive and taking care of them in Edo state.

“I haven’t seen my children, except for just once”, she said in tears as Obasanjo consoled her.

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Libya Returnees Slams Nigerian Government, Says Many Are Returning To Libya Despite The Suffering

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Libya Returnees Slams Nigerian Government, Says Many Are Returning To Libya Despite The Suffering

 

Some Libya returnees from Edo state have revealed that some of the returnees have gone back to the North African country preferring to die there than being frustrated by Nigerian authorities.

The returnees advised the International Organization of Migration, IOM, the European Union and other humanitarian agencies not to partner with the Nigerian Government in sending aide to them.

They also hinted that more Nigerians would continue to flee to Libya in spite of the sufferings and torture associated with such trips.

They said projects routed through the Nigerian Government hardly ever get to the intended beneficiaries.

The returnees spoke in Benin-City, Edo state at a ceremony organized by IOM to launch and hand over a Migrant Resource Centre MRC to the Federal Government.

Iluobe Ehis, who returned last year, said, “What I have to tell the EU-IOM is that they should please, not partner with the government or any other agency in Nigeria.

“If there is any project you have for the returnees, please do it fast. We heard that some money was set aside to empower us but till now we have not seen anything since we finished our training last year.”

Another returnee who simply identified himself as Collins said, “Talking about reintegration, up till today nothing has been done. They trained us last year but the grants they promised us have not been given.

“My candid advice to IOM and EU is that if you want to spend money on returnees, do not partner with the Nigerian government. Some of us that returned have gone back again.”

The programme had the presence of the Minister of Labour and Productivity, Dr. Chris Ngige; the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, SGF, Boss Mustapha (represented by Mrs. Roseline Obiechine); and the Federal Commissioner, National Commission for Refugees, Migrants and Internally Displaced Persons, Hajia Sadia Umar Farouk.

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