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Not less than 130 underage Nigerian girls trafficked to Mali and Burkina Faso are still trapped in the two countries.

Not less than 130 underage Nigerian girls trafficked to Mali and Burkina Faso are still trapped

According to the federal government, 90 of the girls are in Burkina Faso while the remaining 40 are in Mali.

Mrs. Abike Dabiri-Erewa, the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Foreign Affairs and Diaspora, who disclosed the situation The Punch, described it as requiring urgent attention.

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She said the Nigerian embassies in the two countries were currently working to see how to rescue the underage girls.

Naij.com gathered that Dabiri-Erewa also reiterated her warning to Nigerians to avoid Libya following a death penalty awaiting illegal migrants in that country.

The presidential aide had recently said her office would be working with the National Commission for Refugees, Migrants and Internally Displaced Persons to sensitise Nigerians on the need to avoid some countries.

Two weeks after 171 Nigerians voluntarily returned home from Libya 155 others followed suit on Thursday, March 23, aboard a chartered Nouvel Air aircraft with registration number TS-1NB.

Like the initial group which returned on March 7 after being stranded in Libya while enroute Europe, the returnees were brought back by the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) and the Nigerian Embassy in Libya.

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They were received at the Hajj Camp area of the airport by officers of the Nigerian Immigration Service (NIS) , the National Agency for the Protection of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP) and the Police.

Meanwhile, Nigerians have continued to react to the arrival of President Buhari.

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As 155 Nigerians return from Libya, 130 underaged girls are trapped in Mali and Burkina Faso FG - NAIJ.COM