Among African migrants who suffer martyrdom in Libya, Nigerians are legion. Indeed, even the continent's leading economic power fails to deter candidates for illegal emigration.

"I was sold. On the road that led here, I was sold. One of the most horrifying testimonies of the CNN team investigating the slave markets in Libya is undoubtedly that of Victory, a 21-year-old Nigerian from the south of the most populous country in Africa.


Victory had sixteen months of ordeal between his departure from southern Nigeria and his detention in Libya. The ex-Nigerian slave finally escaped his Libyan jailers. But he is now being held in a camp in Libya pending his return to his home country.

Of course, Victory is angry when he talks about torture during his detention, beatings and electric shocks. " Most of those who were with us lost their lives, " he says.

But where his voice breaks is when Victory evokes the homecoming. " What concerns me is not the food and the water that we are given here. I lost a lot of money. My mother lost a lot too, "Victory confesses.
To obtain his release, he had to pay one million naira, or nearly.....
http://www.sipcypnewsblog.com/2017/11/chronicle-slave-market-in-libya-malaise.html