A rescued Nigerian migrant, Mercy Olugbenga, has recounted how she was confined for months, and nurses repeatedly took her blood so it could be used for her employer’s ailing mother while she lived in Libya.
Speaking on the ARISE TV Sunrise Daily programme on Wednesday, Mercy said that she took a decision to travel to Libya after selling family property to pay for her sick mother’s treatment.
According to her, she had dropped out of school at the age of 20 years and was lured to Libya with the promise of greener pastures to enable her to raise money to care for her sick mother.
Instead, she found herself trapped in modern-day slavery.
“My mum was sick. She had a kidney problem. So we had to sell all her properties, and there was nothing else. There is no family anywhere,” she said.
Mercy, an indigene of Kabba in Kogi State, said she spent four years working in Libya
“For one year and six months, I worked without receiving a kobo, because I had to pay the agent who took me to Libya the sum of about two and a half million naira
