102 Nigerians arrested in Libya
By Simon Ebegbulem
Monday, June 22, 2009
BENIN—ADDITIONAL 102 Nigerians, forty five of them from Edo state, were arrested weekend by the Libyan authorities while trying to travel to Europe with fake documents.





http://odili.net/news/source/2009/jun/22/309.html

The weekend arrest would increase the number of Edo state natives in Libyan under ground prison to almost two thousand.

It would be recalled that over one thousand five hundred natives of Edo state have been languishing in an under ground jail in Libya since March this year for committing the same offence.

The Special Adviser to Governor Adams Oshiomohle on Foreign Matters/Diaspora, Mr. Ehiozuwa Agbonayinma, had last week expressed frustrations over the attitude of the Libyan officials towards the efforts being made by both the state government and the Federal Ministry of Foreign Affairs in seeking the release of the Nigerians.

One of the prisoners from Edo state, Charles Erawuyi, who spoke to Vanguard on telephone, disclosed that additional 102 Nigerians were arrested weekend and that forty-five of them are from Edo state.

He added: “The problem we are having too is that the officials in the Nigerian Embassy here are making matters worse for us. What they do is to collect money individually from our relations before they will go and ask for the release of anyone instead of seeking for the release of all of us like the Kenyan Government and others did.

“They will ask for up to one fifty to two hundred dollars and most of us cannot afford it.”

Well, I think Yar'Adua should go to Libya in order to beg for the release those criminals who have sworn that it is better to die in the high seas, become food to vultures in the Sahara desert or rot in a Libyan jail cell that work hard in Nigeria.

I am from Edo state, yet my recent decision to leave Lagos and go settle in Benin City has stunned my fellow Edos. They just feel trapped, they just want to get out.

The amount of shame that Edo State indigenes alone have earned this country in the areas of 'Yahoo', Italian Prostitution and Desert Crossing is more than any other group has managed. It has gotten to such a horrible extent that when criminals from other countries are caught, they go ahead to declare Nigerian citizenship, with Benin as place of birth.

Una d'oO O!

Those guys were not fast. . .idiots!
Is it not their mates who swim the mediterranean to get to europe?

At least they got to libya. . .anywhere is better than hell-hole nigeria. . .

So what are their offences though?

Why are we so quick to condemn. The article didnt actually say they did anything wrong. They only crime will probably be that they were blacks / foreigners in Libya.

guess some nigerians are up to no good there.From what i hear Libya is a kool country to live in and some unscrupulous nigerians are trying to find it as a haven for doing shady stuff.
Too bad for those nigerians who live there legitimately and are doing legit stuff.

one day, all these wud be history,

biola44:

one day, all these wud be history,

Amen to that.

biola44:

one day,  all these wud be history, 

Yesoooo

Tudór:

Those guys were not fast. . .idiots!
Is it not their mates who swim the mediterranean to get to europe?

Ol boy! Are they sharks!!

biola44:

one day, all these wud be history,

Not till we do something to make history.