Members of the House of Representatives on Wednesday condemned the increasing cases of public auctioning of black Africans in Libya.
Also, the Senate has begun the investigation of the alleged sale of illegal African migrants “mostly Nigerians” as slaves in Libya, which it described as a slap on the face of Nigeria.
The Senate probe was based on a motion moved by Senator Baba Kaka Garbai (Borno-Central) at the plenary on Wednesday.
Describing the development as “slavery,” members of the House of Representatives asked the Federal Government to intervene with the aim of stopping it.
Two members, Mr. Saheed Akinade-Fijabi and Ms. Omosede Igbinedion, had moved a joint motion on the “Inhuman and barbaric act of slave trade involving the auctioning of black Africans in Libya” to ignite a lengthy debate on the floor in Abuja.
The session was presided over by the Deputy Speaker, Mr. Yussuff Lasun.
The members had observed that African migrants, desperately in search of “greener pastures” embarked on dangerous journeys to Europe from their home countries, only to get trapped in Libya.
The House called on the Nigerian Government to “liaise with the government of Libya to find a solution to the menace of migration and modern-day slavery in Libya.”
Leading the debate, Akinade-Fijabi, who is a member of the All Progressives Congress from Oyo State, said the migrants were mainly from Nigeria, Guinea, Senegal, Mali, Niger and Gambia.
His motion read partly, “The House also notes that on November 14, 2017, the US television network, CNN, broke the news of the auctioning of human beings in Libya with a live footage of the auctioning process in which young men were being sold to North African buyers as potential farm hands.
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