The fourth batch of 75 Nigerian returnees from Libya arrived in Maiduguri on Friday after travelling from Tripoli through the desert for one month.
The returnees came in three commercial buses belonging to a Cameroonian company, "Touristique Express", accompanied by officials of International Organisation for Migration based in Chad.
The returnees were later handed over to officials of the National Emergency Management Agency(NEMA) in Borno.
One of the returnees, Mr Solomon Imenwan from Edo, told journalists that he had been living in Libya for the past five years and that he lost all his property in the crisis in that country.
He claimed that "Muammar Ghadafi opposition army brutalised us, violated our girls and women and some of us even lost their lives as a result of the crisis.
"I thank God that I am successfully back to Nigeria. I have vowed never in my life to go back nor to advise anybody to travel to that country again."
Another returnee, Efusa Ijesaroju, said that while in Libya, they were discriminated against and treated as a second class citizen.
"I am a graduate of Computer Science from the University of Benin but they don't recognise my certificate
"I want to call on Nigerians to stop travelling to that country as we have experienced terrible situation in Libya," Ijesaroju said.
Also a widow who did not want to be identified in the team said her little daughter was killed along with her husband while she was away for shopping in the market.
She appealed to government to come to her aid to enable her to bring up her two surviving children .
So far, 465 Nigerian returnees from Libya have been received by NEMA in Maiduguri,
Meanwhile, the Public Relations Officer of the North-East Zone of NEMA, Ibrahim Farinloye, promised that the fourth batch of returnees would be given special treatment considering the stress they had gone through .
Farinloye said they would be transported to Benin while some funds would been provided for them to enable them to return to their various states of origin.
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If Nigeria is at least governed well, her children would not be running out to face and suffer all kinds of degradation in a place as Libya. Even at days of chasing out the so-call strong man of Libya, their PHCN never went off.Now that the Nigerians are returned, I bet you they for long time remain as refugees in their own Country because our Government is nothing to write home about. What about those of us here, no difference. God help us.
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