1,700 Nigerians in Libya prisons
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we are happy that they are in this very group that are arrived today thursday1 no fewer than 1700 nigerians are serving various jail terms in accessible prisons in libya and many others are held in rebels areas1 kefas said that were still many other nigerians held for various offences in various prisons in the area being controlled by the rebels which still remained inaccessible to the mission1 our major issue now apart from bilateral issue with libya is the issue of migrant crisis the federal government as at today evacuated 3801 irregular migrants in the last few months1 he said that the 165 irregular migrants arrived at the murtal mohammed airport in lagos on thursday 1 there are six of them that are dead and are in the mortuary as we cannot locate their families because many of them change names when they get there he said1 according to him out of the 165 irregular migrants that arrived are 109 that appealed for rescue through a video few weeks ago1 we have 109 that few weeks ago appealed t the president and religious leaders to come to their help through a video that went viral1 the charge d affairs nigeria mission to libya mr alex kefas confirmed as he also report that 165 stranded nigerian irregular migrants were on thursday evacuated from libya by nigeria1 the mission has been doing a lot to ensure the welfare of the migrants some of them were taken to the hospitals for child delivery he said1 he said that the mission had been getting support from the federal government of nigeria to improve funding to take care of challenges that it had been facing1 the issue we are talking about is not that we are not doing anything the european union international organisation on migration and un have been doing their best1 but one of the challenges is that some of the migrants have insisted that europe is their destination and we cannot stop them according to international law1 some of them refused to be repatriated and nobody could be forced to come back home it is not possible he said1 according to him about 65 of those categories were rescued from the high seas recently and this is almost on weekly basis1 some are still there as we speak even among those that sent the video recorded have refused to be repatriated so but we are still appealing to them to reconsider their steps he said1