{"id":177608,"date":"2025-09-04T07:45:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-04T06:45:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/what-i-went-through-in-libya-rescued-illegal-migrant"},"modified":"2025-09-04T08:48:54","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T07:48:54","slug":"what-i-went-through-in-libya-rescued-illegal-migrant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/what-i-went-through-in-libya-rescued-illegal-migrant","title":{"rendered":"What I went through in Libya \u2013 Rescued illegal migrant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>A rescued Nigerian-Libyan migrant, Mercy Olugbenga, has recounted her ordeal in the Arab country.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking in an interview on Arise Television on Wednesday, Mercy said she was being locked up for one year at her place of work, and her blood was being transfused every month.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy mom was sick. She had a kidney problem, so we had to sell all our properties, and there was nothing else. It\u2019s just my brother and I. There is no family anywhere. All our family deserted us, so there is no option.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI didn\u2019t even know I was going. It was a day before I knew I was traveling. I heard from someone that there\u2019s a job in Libya. I didn\u2019t even think it twice. I just said, I\u2019ll follow you.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI didn\u2019t know any country named Libya as at then. I only heard it that day, and I decided, okay, let me let me follow. So what I experienced in Libya, not me alone, other Africans and other illegal migrants. Those people, Arab people don\u2019t like us; they treated us like animals.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn the place I worked, I was locked up for a year. In my room, they lock the door before going out. They lock the house side door, they lock the gate door.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo I was stranded in the house. But along the line, I got to know that the mother I was originally to take care of, had medical issues, which is kidney transplants and all that. So within those period, every month, they bring a nurse home to transfuse my blood,\u201d she narrated.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Nigeria<\/span> Follow <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Africa-Press<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. A rescued Nigerian-Libyan migrant, Mercy Olugbenga, has recounted her ordeal in the Arab country. Speaking in an interview on Arise Television on Wednesday, Mercy said she was being locked up for one year at her place of work, and her blood was being transfused every month. \u201cMy mom was sick. 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