SHOCKING: Nigerian immigrants are sold as slaves for $400 in Libya [Video]

A new report has emerged detailing how Nigerian and other African immigrants are sold as slaves for a mere $400 in North Africa.

 A new documentary captured by the International Organisation for Migration [IOM], an arm of the United Nations [UN], has revealed how Nigerian immigrants are sold for $400 in some North African countries, particularly Libya.

According to the documentary that was run by the CNN, the thriving slave market is a well-organized syndicate where the male immigrants are sold to work in farms and mines while the ladies are sold as sex slaves.  The report corroborates an earlier statement released by IOM in April 2017, after an intensive and underground investigation.

 The IOM statement had posited that its staff in the Niger Republic and Libya documented the shocking events on North African migrant routes, which they have described as slave markets tormenting hundreds of young Africans desperate to get to Europe through Libya.

According to IOM's Director of Operations and Emergency, Mohammed Abdiker, the situation is so dire, adding that 'some reports are truly horrifying and the latest reports of slave markets for migrants can be added to a long list of outrages.'


The statement added that IOM Libya learned of other kidnapping cases like those IOM Niger has knowledge of.  CNN reporters who also participated in the investigations in Tripoli, the Libyan capital while armed with concealed cameras, revealed that about a dozen people were auctioned in the space of six or seven minutes.


One of the traders dressed in a camouflage gear and holding a man was reported to have said:  “Does anybody need a digger? This is a digger, a big strong man, he’ll dig. What am I bid, what am I bid?”  Ready buyers were said to have raised their hands as the price rose:  “500, 550, 600, 650.


 And within minutes, the deals were concluded and the men, utterly resigned to their fate, were being handed over to their new masters,” CNN adds.



he video evidence has been handed over to Libyan authorities who are currently carrying out a clampdown on smugglers.  An official with Libya’s Anti-Illegal Immigration Agency, First Lieutenant Naser Hazam, told CNN that he has not witnessed a slave auction, but acknowledged that organized gangs are operating smuggling rings in the country.


 “They fill a boat with 100 people; those people may or may not make it. The smuggler does not care as long as he gets the money, and the migrant may get to Europe or die at sea,” Hazam told the CNN reporters.