- An auction market where human beings are sold has been uncovered by CNN
- The network revealed that it also obtained a video in which a Nigerian was sold
- CNN said the Nigerian was believed to be in his twenties
CNN has uncovered slave markets in which humans are being sold like commodities.
The CNN in its report on Wednesday, November 15, said one of the unidentified men being sold in a cell phone video obtained by by the network is a Nigerian.
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The said Nigerian was said to be in his twenties and is wearing a pale shirt and sweatpants.
The network revealed that it also obtained a video in which a Nigerian was sold. Credit: CNN
"He has been offered up for sale as one of a group of "big strong boys for farm work," according to the auctioneer, who remains off camera. Only his hand -- resting proprietorially on the man's shoulder -- is visible in the brief clip," CNN reports.
The network, after seeing footage of this slave auction, worked to verify its authenticity and traveled to Libya to investigate further.
The CNN said it witnessed a dozen people go "under the hammer" in the space of six or seven minutes.
"Does anybody need a digger? This is a digger, a big strong man, he'll dig," the salesman, dressed in camouflage gear, says. "What am I bid, what am I bid?"
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It further reported that buyers raise their hands as the price rises, "500, 550, 600, 650 ..." Within minutes it is all over and the men, utterly resigned to their fate, are being handed over to their new "masters."
"After the auction, we met two of the men who had been sold. They were so traumatized by what they'd been through that they could not speak, and so scared that they were suspicious of everyone they met," the report said.
Meanwhile, NAIJ.com had reported that eight days after 149 Nigerians voluntarily returned from Libya, another batch of 258 on Tuesday, November 14 came back home from the North African country where they had been stranded en-route Europe.
NAIJ.com reports that the returnees were brought back aboard a Libyan Airlines aircraft with Registration Number 5A-LAU.
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Source: Naija.ng
ROSY CREST
Wednesday 15 November 2017