Chairman of the Nigerians in Diaspora Commission (NIDCOM) has condemned in strong terms the killing of a Nigerian in Libya.
In a statement issued on Thursday, Hon. Abike Dabiri-Erewa noted that the said Nigerian was allegedly set ablaze by three Libyan nationals who stormed a factory.
The identity of the Nigerian man who was set on fire with petrol has not been revealed as investigations and interrogations of the suspected attackers who are in custody are on going.
Dabiri-Erewa however described the act as dastardly, bestial and unacceptable, while calling on the Libyan authorities to apply the full weight of the law on the suspected killers.
Meanwhile, a statement by the Libyan Interior Ministry has condemned the act, insisting that it was a new wave of violence on migrants in the North Africa country.
The United Nations has also described the killing of the Nigerian “another senseless crime against migrants in the country”.
“We are horrified by the killing of a Nigerian migrant worker in Tripoli, Libya by three men yesterday. The young man was burned alive, in yet again another senseless crime against migrants in the country,” tweeted Federico Soda, head of the UN’s International Organization of Migration mission in Libya.
“Those responsible must be held to account.”
