Senate President Bukola Saraki has asked the executive to summon the Libyan ambassador to Nigeria over the sale of citizens into slavery in the North African country.
Saraki said it was a slap in the face of Nigeria that its citizens were being sold into slavery in Libya.
Reports of Nigerian migrants being sold into slavery in Libya have elicited condemnations from citizens who accuse the government of being reluctant.
On Wednesday, the senate asked the ministry of foreign affairs to summon the Libyan ambassador to discuss ways of ending the trade of Nigerians as slaves.
This followed a motion entitled: “Urgent need to protect Nigerian citizens from the Libya slavery auctions”, sponsored by Senator Baba Kaka Bashir Garbai.
The upper legislative chamber also urged President Muhammadu Buhari to present the issue at the ongoing European Union and African Union (EU-AU) Summit in Abidjan.
“As a country it is a slap in the face if Nigerians can be treated in this manner. Other countries are taking necessary actions to bring back their citizens from that troubled country. We need to be doing similar things. The ministry of foreign affairs must immediately summon the Libyan ambassador here in Nigeria to explain what is happening, so that we can bring an end to this situation,” the senate president said.
