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Okowa grants 78 Libya deportees automatic job

January 10, 2018 Dominic Adewole

At least 78 Libyan returnees, who are indigenes of Delta State, had been absorbed by Governor Ifeanyi Okowa into his Job and Wealth Creation skill acquisition empowerment programme in the state.

The returnees, who were between the ages of 18 and 28, described their ordeal in the dry lands of Kano to Niger republic to Agades and Libya as ‘awful and animalistic.’

Special Adviser to the Governor on International Affairs, Dr. Genevieve Modi, who received them, said her boss had given a directive for their immediate rehabilitation.

She said the returnees were among the 5,500 people rescued by a high-powered delegation led by the Minister of Internal Affairs, Abdulrahman Dambazau, under the auspices of the European Union (EU) in conjunction with the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP).

She said: “Governor Okowa provided the transit, food and other logistics in addition to what the federal government made available and the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) provided. The state is going to absorb them in batches. They will fill the job creation forms before we can rehabilitate them.”

Commissioner for Economic Planning, Kingsley Emu, during an extraordinary session with the returnees in Asaba, lamented that the youth chairman of his council area in Ika North-East, Chuks Odiase, was among them after the state government spent more than N2 million to train him under the state’s youth empowerment programme.

A returnee, Okafor Abrahim, from Umunede in Ika North-East, who said he joined the movement to Libya in November 2016 having paid N150, 000, said they were fed with addictive foods in the prison.

He said: “I am now ready to remain in Nigeria to start frying Akara. Government should give us the capital to start up something. If that fails, I will go into agriculture or catering business. My experience was awful.”

The Commissioner, Bureau for Special Duties, Government House, Ernest Ogwezzy, decried the speculation that victims of the state top the list of returnees, maintaining that “to say the tide is high in Delta State is unfounded; I think other state ranks higher on the list.”

As compensation for what?

Edo governor gave 1000 naira only

Which kind job abeg, make i know whether e worst pass the one dem do for libya

Hunger catch dem...

There something I just noticed about this country, the good citizens are ignored or pay the burnt just so the bad once can be rewarded or bribed to pretend to be law abiding.. niaja we hail thee

Na wa o
So the ones struggling at home and even paid taxes don't deserve jobs abi?

Which Job? Media Stunt 101

See how they slim fit like Afonjas. If they weren't SS, I would have thought they were just ordinary Afonjas I see every day in SW. They naturally skinny or their food lacks nutrients.

Nice one to okowa while obaseki is giving them 1k each to go to their houses the same obaseki that says tge death of tinubu's son is a big lost to him and edo people...lol


This obaseki sef the man na real comedian of the federal republic of nigeria.

obaseki look at what ur counter part is doing o... come come to think of it, 'obaseki employing more than 300 retunees '.. OK.. I forgot he is a stingy man....

lionjungle3000:
See how they slim fit like Afonjas. If they weren't SS, I would have thought they were just ordinary Afonjas I see every day in SW. They naturally skinny or their food lacks nutrients.

Age comes with maturity but for people like you, it's proportional to folly.

At topic, the country is hard no doubt but if one can work hard and is prudent in spending, the sky would not be his/her limit. Had it been the money wasted in their perilous journey was channelled into business, they would have reached a stage of success by now.

Why travel as an illegal immigrant? Only few excel through this route while other wallow in pains.