Senior Special Assistant to the President on Foreign Affairs and Diaspora Mrs. Abike Dabiri-Erewa has indicated that 116 Nigerian migrants trapped in Libyan slave camps will be repatriated home soon.
Mrs. Dabiri-Erewa said this in a statement by her media aide Abdur-Rahman Balogun in Abuja.
She said the Federal Government and the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) have located the detention camps of the Nigerians and offered to bring those willing back home.
The Nigeria Mission in Tripoli, she said, had traced the migrants to Osama Detention Centre, Zawiya, Libya.
According to her, 116 Nigerian migrants have been processed online by the Nigeria Mission and IOM for repatriation back to Nigeria.
However, 24 of them insisted they must get to Europe.
She said the Federal Government moved to rescue the detained migrants after their plea for assistance through video clip from Libya on July 8.
In the video, the stranded Nigerians, who veiled their faces, said their final destination is Europe but was intercepted by the security agencies in Libya and locked up in dehumanising conditions.