Recounting their ordeal, some of the returnees said the slave trade is a joint venture between Libyans and some Nigerians. Some of the freed Nigerian slaves in Libya have said that their fellow countrymen were part of the slave trade cartel.They described the Nigerians involved in the slave business as more wicked than the Libyans and other participants.A recent CNN reports revealed the auctions of Africans, including Nigerians, in Libya.The shocking report has since generated global outcry and condemnation.President Muhammadu Buhari had ordered the evacuation of Nigerians stranded in Libya following the scandal.Recounting their ordeal, some of the returnees said they also sold by Nigerians.”Nigerians and Libyans are doing the business like they are one big happy family,” Harrison Okotie, 32, who lived in Libya for three years until his repatriation, told Punch.Another returnee, Sunday Anyaegbunam, who hails from Edo state, said they were sold twice by Nigerians during their nine-day journey through the desert.
