Some Libya returnees on Wednesday in Benin rejected the N1,000 transport fares given them by the Edo Government to take them to their hometowns.

The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) recalls that the returnees had on Tuesday protested the non-payment of stipend as transport fare to their homes within the state.

The returnees said that they had expected something reasonable without stating the amount.

One of the returnees, Gabriel Edokpaigbe, said it would be a shame for him to go back to his father’s house after he sold all his belongings to travel to Europe.

He said the N1,000 would not take him to his destination.

Christian Otoide, who claimed to be based in Lagos State, said he was still wearing the prison uniforms given to him in Libya because he had no other clothes.

Otoide said that returnees were promised many things in Libya hence he agreed to return home, adding that he is disappointed.

“How will N1,000 take me to Lagos? We were working in Libya but Libya police said our government said our country is now good. That was why I returned,” he said.

The returnees claimed that announcement by the Federal Government that Nigerians should return home made Libya policemen to arrest those living comfortably in the country.

Many said they lost their money to the forceful arrest and deportation.

Efosa Clifford, 43, said he spent over N1.3 million on his failed trip to Europe.

He said: “If there was good liberty in Libya, life is good there, it is just that blacks have no free movement in Libya.”

Meanwhile, relatives of some of the returnees have stormed the premises of the Benin Motel Plaza where the returnees are lodged to find their lost ones.

Those looking for their relatives peeped through the fence to look for their loved ones.

A woman who gave her name as Boss said she was looking for her brother named Aminu, adding that she last heard from him in September 2016.

Another man said he had visited the hotel each time he heard Nigerians had returned from Libya to search for his daughter but to no avail.

http://www.metronaija.ng/libya-returnees-reject-edo-govt-n1000-transport-fares/

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Ungrateful so and so's...... send them back to Libya a beg.

Give dem beta money u go see dem for Libya or Egypt tomorrow

Efosa Clifford, 43, said he spent over N1.3 million on his failed trip to Europe.

This is so stupid.

see shakara o..dem send una message ?

Who send them go Libya in the first place , abegi make they no collect na who they dey do

Chai

we that remain in naija...who don give us stipend??

8 comments n fp.mod una wehdone

AllTheWayUp:


1000 Niara

Governor Obaseki has gone mad

abi him even try sef , se na him send them go Libya

AllTheWayUp:


1000 Niara

Governor Obaseki has gone mad

I think u are d one dt id madt. ...that money is enough to travel to any part of edo

Govt should return those who don't want the money back to Libya... But through road

And the cycle continues, they hutsle for cash, use their life savings back to another country as refugees, after few years back to naija empty

My brothers and sister, in your cycle in life don't end in somalia, cause na there your cycle go end

What are they suppose to do with 1000 naira? That amount can't even take Ekpoma indigens to their home town.


Yeye government.

IT IS QUITE UNFORTUNATE...

Ok

1k transport even if your destination na sambisa forest.


Naija really funny

1k

Wow! 1k each.

What do I need to say?

So they were expecting the state government to give them N1,000,000 each . Abeg make them go their father house jor.

martineverest:
I think u are d one dt id madt. ...that money is enough to travel to any part of edo

Namely?

Transport fare to villa....

I hope crime rate won't increase

Lol.. hahahabab

As usual theses greedy officials will pocket the rest money.

As usual theses greedy offi.....cials will pocket the rest money.

Nobody is going anywhere we are in it together, bring them all home

Was it the government that sent you guys on a suicide mission?

AllTheWayUp:





1000 Niara

Governor Obaseki has gone mad

Mind yourself ,who send am? Moreover it was always a 50/50chance of making it

Sijo01:


Namely?

don't ask me kweshon....I'm an Edo man

hahahahaha dem think sey na Libya dem dey.Welcome to reality . Guess d country was not as bad as this when u left.u see 1k wey u no work for u no happy