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2000 Edo State indigenes in Libyan Prisons ADDITIONAL 102 Nigerians, forty five of them from Edo state

Posted by 9jabook.com on June 22, 2009 at 5:01pm
102 Nigerians arrested in Libya 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. advertisement NOLLYWOOD MOVIES ONLINE 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.
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