Nigeria: Obasanjo Wants Probe of Nigerians' Death in Libya

7 September 2015

Abeokuta — Former President,Chief Olusegun Obasanjo has expressed worry over how desperate youths risk their lives to travel to Europe and the maltreatment they receive from their hosts on the African continent.

Obasanjo in a statement he personally signed, yesterday, however, called for probe of the death of Nigerians and other migrants in Libya, saying "The incident is the direct action of Western powers which is responsible for the current anarchy in the country."

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