Harun Ahmed is an Ethiopian man who journeyed through the Sahara to Libya en route Europe

- Ahmed claimed to have been kidnapped by gangsters at the border of Egypt and Libya

- He said he was sold three times to slave buyers before he escaped

A 27-year old Ethiopian man, Harun Ahmed, has recounted his ordeal in the hands of Libyan slave buyers while he was migrating to Europe through the Sahara.

Ahmed, who eventually escaped to Germany after surviving the dreadful journey said he was sold three times in Libya to slave buyers.

While recounting the horrors of his journey to BBC, Ahmed said he first travelled to Sudan from Ethiopia, before he began his journey through the Sahara.

He said: "After living a year and a few months in Sudan, I started a journey to Libya with other migrants - paying $600 each to smugglers.

"We were 98 on a lorry. People had to sit on top of each other and the heat was unbearable.

"We had encountered a lot of problems on our way. There are these armed people in the desert who stop you all of a sudden and steal everything you have."
Trouble started for Ahmed at the border of Egypt, Libya and Chad on the sixth day of his journey.

He said that it was at the border that the smugglers meet to exchange migrants, but for Ahmed and his co-travellers, something went wrong there.

He said: "At the border place, a group of gangsters kidnapped us all and took us to Chad. They drove us for two days through the Sahara and led us into their camp."

At the camp, the heavily armed group - who spoke Arabic and a number of other languages - explained what they wanted.

Ahmed said: "They brought a car and said those of us who can pay $4,000 each can get into the car and those who can't have to remain there.

"We didn't have that money but we talked to each other and decided to pretend we had and to get into the car anyway."

Ahmed and his friends were driven for another three days, before arriving at another place where they sell migrants, he told BBC.

"Those who took us over told us that they had bought us for $4,000 each - and that unless we paid that money back we wouldn't be going anywhere," he said.

Their fate if they did not come up with the money was hauntingly clear.

"There were migrants, mostly of Somali and Eritrean origin, who had been there for more than five months. They had suffered a lot and they didn't look like human beings.

"We suffered a lot too. They forced us to drink hot water mixed with petroleum to make us pay them quickly. They gave us a tiny amount of food, and only once a day. They tortured us every night."

Ahmed was unable to get the money to pay his new captors, and he remained trapped in the camp with another 31 Ethiopians for 80 days. Eventually, the traders became fed up.

"'You are not going to pay us, so we will sell you,' the traders told us," Ahmed recalled.

"We had no food for more than two months and we were very bony. As a result the man who they brought to sell us to refused to buy us, saying: 'They don't even have a kidney."

Finally, the traders found a buyer, a man from the Libyan city of Saba, who paid $3,000 each.

"We get into his car convinced we couldn't see anything worse than we'd already seen. But in Saba, after four days of travel, we faced a suffering that was inhuman.

Emeka com see o Chigozie don com bak o

Who sent him there?

Ekugbeh:
Emeka com see o
Chigozie don com bak o

use your brain...the man is from Ethiopia...so which one come be Emeka come see oooo?...

D dint say aw d man escaped ni

Ekugbeh:
Emeka com see o
Chigozie don com bak o

Emeka is suppose to be your brother, Chigozie is suppose to be your brother. Wait until you find yourself in a position where you need a black man in sight, just one. You will learn that whether you be Yoruba, Igbo, South African, Jamaican, you are just another black man.

"So why did I weep when Trayvon Martin was in the street?
When gang banging make me kill a nigga blacker than me?
Hypocrite!"
---Kendrick Lamar - The Blacker The Berry.