Award-winning reggae-dancehall star, Patrick Nnaemeka Okorie, aka Patoranking, has come hard on African leader for their lack of strong criticism and action against emerging reports of dehumanising treatment of migrants and refugees by Libyan smugglers.
“African Leaders can’t you see what’s going on in Libya...Why is Libya not making the world headlines on CNN,BBC and the rest? Oh God,” Patoranking tweeted on Tuesday.
An exclusive investigative report by CNN two weeks ago, had revealed how Libyan smugglers – unable to ferry desperate migrants off to Europe due to crackdown by Libyan coastguard – resort to auctioning off the migrants as slave workers to bidders.
According to the CNN report, the migrants who include Nigerians, were auctioned for as $400.
Also, on November 3, bodies of 26 Nigerian young women were retrieved by a Spanish rescue boat after they had drowned while trying to cross the Mediterranean Sea to Italy from Libya. The girls were aged between 14 – 18 years.
The deaths had sparked a global outrage over trafficking and migrant conditions across Libya, with Italain security operatives saying they had arrested an Egyptian and a Libyan in connection with the deaths.
However, the incidents are yet to evoke strong condemnations or any action from African leaders, prompting the outrage by Patoranking and several others.
The Nigerian government had also taken hit for not reacting “strongly” to the mediterranean deaths, including for failing to sent a delegation at their burial on November 17 in Italy.
AFRICAN LEADERS I KNOW YOU GUYS ARE SEEING THIS...THIS IS HAPPENING IN AFRICA TO AFRICA BY… https://t.co/ezRsN67VUA
— PATORANKING (@patorankingfire) November 28, 2017
African Leaders can’t you see what’s going on in Libya...Why is Libya not making the world headlines on CNN,BBC and the rest? Oh God
— PATORANKING (@patorankingfire) November 28, 2017
