A stranded Nigerian, who has just returned home from Libya, Jubril Bukar, has said he left Nigeria when the terrorist group, Boko Haram, killed his parents in his presence.
This is as he warned that nothing should make anyone leave the country for illegal migration abroad.
Bukar who is from Goza, Borno State, said he left the country in 2013 with the hope of getting to Germany through the Mediterranean Sea, but found himself stranded in Libya.
According to him, his inability to stand the attack by the terrorist group which led to the killing of his parents in his presence led to his decision to flee.
His words: “I left Nigeria because of the Boko Haram menace that led to the killing of my parents in my presence.
“I had a wife and four children before I left Nigeria but now I have lost two children. My wife cannot be located. One of my children is said to be in Lokoja and another at Kaduna.
“It will take me time to locate them but I am sure of locating them.
“I have returned to Nigeria with nothing but I can say that as a professional plumber, I will survive.
“I beg Nigerians not to think of traveling to Libya.
“I thank President Muhammadu Buhari for helping me to come back to Nigeria.”
Bukar is one of the 141 stranded Nigerian returned to Nigeria on Thursday.
The co-ordinator of the National Emergency Management Agency, NEMA, Lagos Territorial Office, Alhaji Idris Abubakar Muhammed, received the returnees on behalf of Federal Government at the Cargo Wing of the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, MMIA.
A chartered flight, Al Buraq Air, with flight number UZ389/24 and registration 5A-DMG which brought them arrived Nigeria at about 4:32 p.m.
It was facilitated by the European Union, EU, and the International Organisation for Migration, IOM, in a collaborative project which has seen about 15,000 stranded Nigerians brought back since 2017 when the exercise started.
At the end of the profiling of the returnees, there are 42 adult women, 19 female children and five infant female.
Also brought back are 55 adult men, 14 male children and six infant males.
