MIGRANT ATTACK: NIDCOM BOSS CONDEMNS BURNING OF A NIGERIAN IN TRIPOLI, LIBYA.

Oru Leonard

The Chairman/CEO Nigerians in Diaspora Commission (NiDCOM), Hon Abike Dabiri-Erewa has condemned in strong terms the killing of a Nigerian, setting him ablaze by three men allegedly all Libyan Nationals who stormed a factory.

Gabriel Odu of the Media, Public Relations and Protocol Unit, NIDCOM stated that that Hon Abike has described the act as dastardly, beastial and unacceptable. Hon Dabiri-Erewa called on the Libyan Authorities to apply the full weight of the law on the suspected killers.

Meanwhile a statement by the Libyan Interiror Ministry has condemned the act insisting that it is a new wave of violence on migrants in North Africa.

The United Nations has also described the Killing of the Nigerian man as
another senseless crime against migrants in the Country.

In the meantime, the full identity of the Nigerian man set on fire by
petrol has not been made known as investigations and interrogations of
the suspected attackers who are in custody are on going.