Stranded Nigerian girls in Lebanon plead for evacuation home

Agency Reporter

Twenty Nigerian girls, who are currently stranded in Lebanon, have sent home a save our soul (SOS) message pleading for evacuation home. The Nigerians want President Muhammadu Buhari and spirited individuals to bail them out of their ordeal.

In a video that has gone viral, the girls appear locked  up in one room .

They regret travelling to the Middle East country.

It is not clear what part of Lebanon they are and how they got there.

Theirs is the latest report of Nigerians facing hard times in Lebanon and want a return home.

A 31 year old Nigerian Temitope Ariwolo was evacuated home from Lebanon three weeks ago after news of her ordeal in that country reached Nigerians.

Temitope and 21 other Nigerians stranded in Lebanon were evacuated to Abuja by the federal government.

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She was initially stopped from leaving for Nigeria and subsequently charged for stealing and attempted murder of her employer after the story of her maltreatment was broken  by Aljazeera television.

She was beaten by Mahmoud Zahran, the husband of her employer, Feyzeh Diab, on April 25 in their Choueifat residence, south of Beirut.

Savouring her fresh freedom, Temitope said: “I am happy being home. Going to Lebanon was like (going to) a hell.

“Nobody knows that will happen there. I advise other Nigerian girls to stay here in Nigeria and try to make it, because going outside there was like hell for me, not only in Lebanon.

“What I experienced in Lebanon, I don’t even pray for Satan to experience .

She spoke to reporters at the Nnamdi Azikiwe Airport, Abuja.

Three months ago, 50 female victims of trafficking and 19 other persons who were stranded in Lebanon were similarly brought back home by the federal government.

Foreign Affairs Minister Geoffrey Onyeama acknowledged the support of the Lebanese government and the Lebanese community in Nigeria in ensuring safe evacuation of the affected persons.

No further details were given on the evacuees

A Nigerian female victim of trafficking in Lebanon, Peace Ufoma, had been rescued in April after she was put up for sale on a social media platform by Wael Jerro, a Lebanese man.