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The Governor of Delta State, Senator Ifeanyi Okowa, has absorbed at least 78 Libyan returnees, who are indigenes of state, into the state’s job and wealth creation skill acquisition and empowerment programme.
The returnees, who were between the ages of 18 and 28, described their ordeal in the drylands of Kano to Niger republic to Agades and Libya as ‘awful and animalistic.’
Special adviser to the Governor on International Affairs, Dr. Genevieve Modi, who received them, said Gov. Okowa had given a directive for immediate rehabilitation of the returnees.
TheNewsGuru reports the returnees were among the 5,500 people rescued by a high-powered delegation led by the Minister of Internal Affairs, Abdulrahman Dambazau, under the auspices of the European Union (EU) in conjunction with the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP).
“Governor Okowa provided the transit, food and other logistics in addition to what the federal government made available and the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) provided.
“The state is going to absorb them in batches. They will fill the job creation forms before we can rehabilitate them,” Modi said.