The Anambra state government has received 11 Indigenes of the state who just returned from Libya.
The returnees, 10 males and a female, were handed over to the State Emergency Management Agency (SEMA) by the federal government at the Porthacourt International airport after their safe arrival from Libya.
One of them, Ndubuisi Okwudiba, a graduate of Applied Microbiology from the Nnamdi Azikiwe University Awka, said he left Nigeria for Libya in 2016 in search of greener pastures, but thanked God that he returned alive to tell his pathetic stories.
Okwudiba, from Ogidi Idemili North local government area of the state, regretted that many Nigerians were still languishing in various inhuman and underground prisons in the Arab nation extremely difficult to locate.
He however commended the state government for coming to their rescue.
Another returnee, Chinedu Onyagu, described Libya as the worst country a foreigner could live in, adding that what was going on in that country was beyond humanitarian crisis.
Receiving them at the professor Dora Akunyili Women Development Centre, Awka, the Commissioner for Social Welfare, Children and Women’s Affairs, Dr. Mrs. Victoria Chikwelu, said the state governor, Willie Obiano was determined to ensure they were fully integrated into the society, having suffered much psychological and emotional trauma.
On his part, the Commissioner for Health, Dr. Joe Akabuike who listed the type of foods they were to be served at the interim due to starvation they sufferd in the prison, said the ministry would immediately dispatch a medical team to ascertain their medical conditions.
