Nigerians in Libya travel home through desert.

The returnees spend one month travelling through the desert in their quest to leave troubled Libya.

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.

They were handed over to officials of the National Emergency Management Agency(NEMA) in Borno State.

One of the returnees, Solomon Imenwan told journalists that he had been living in Libya  for the past five years and that he lost all his property in the crisis that engulfed the country.

According to him, “Muammar Ghadafi opposition army brutalised us, raped 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, Nigerians were discriminated against.

“I am a graduate of Computer Science from the University of Benin but they don’t recognise my certificate," Ijesaroju said.

“I want to call on Nigerians to stop travelling to that country as we have experienced terrible situation in Libya.”

A widow who requested anonymity said that her little daughter and her husband were killed 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 funds would be provided for them to enable them to return to their various states of origin.