Slave trade in Libya - Greed of African leaders why the world is watching?

Slave trade in Libya? At this age and time? The inhumane and despicable act of slavery seems to have raised its ugly head again while the world at large keeps mute and pretends as if nothing of such is happening.

The recent report that African migrants are been sold into slavery in Libya is scandalous and a gross abuse of human rights.

Slavery trade? Oh we thought it was a thing of the past and something that no longer have a place in the present age but that seems to be wrong. 

Who's the highest bidder? 800 Dinar! 1,000 Dinar! 1,100 Dinar! In the end, the winning bid is 1,200 Libyan Dinar – the equivalent of $800 (€680). A done deal; however, this isn't just any auction for a car or a piece of art. What's being sold here is a group of frightened young men from Sub-Saharan Africa. 

Imagine shocking images showing black youths been presented to buyers as potential farmhands and sold off for as little as $400.

It's sad that the white man's cry is instantly heard but for the black man, it takes a fight for freedom to be heard. If these were white men being treated as slaves, instant action could have been taken, there could have been a social media campaign with all including black and white shoeing solidarity. Now that it’s a black man, and an African issue, no one is using this as a social media profile dp. Where is the solidarity? 

Why is the world and world governing body slow to intervene in the North African country or is this to their benefit?

Shame to world powers, for causing what is going on today in Libya by forcing out col. Muammar Mohammed Gaddafi out of power and shame to African heads of states for neglecting it's citizens and issues facing them. You are all a disappointment. 

The worst forms of dehumanization are ongoing in sub-Sahara Africa and all at the behest of the African leaders.  

 

This is an insult to Africa! How can the political elite lives in affluent while the common masses they are supposed to serve live in abject poverty.

Using this youths to accomplish your political ambition and then abandoning them to their fate is a curse in it's own.

You the political elite build mansions and buy properties in exotic corners of the world while your people languish in conditions too contemptible to put in words. 

The hunger is excruciating, there is no water, no power supply, and no good healthcare. Apart from this, fear, insecurity and death are always stalking in the form of crime and political violence. 

Many of them have been forced into crime including robbery, fraud, kidnapping, trafficking and the rest.... Just because of the greed of a few people.

You impoverished your people to the point that they have to go to any length to leave the shores of their countries, even in the face of the most despicable atrocities or death just to find a better living condition.

Africa/Africans is/are rich in resources, minds, intellects, and skillful but still lack behind in everything because the system is flawed and ran by greedy idiots.

The AU and especially the ECOWAS (whose jurisdiction most of the migrants originate from) should cover their faces in shame. They are simply assemblages of thieves that have stolen the destinies of their peoples and reduced them to less than slaves even before these people ever wondered about crossing to Europe. 

Much of the blame also goes to the Libyan authorities for allowing this evil thrive under their nose and European countries for making their borders impenetrable by all means.

Libya is merely an escape route where opportunists have swooped in to take a bite and these young men are only paying the prize for the failure of their leaders.

Where are the Churches, Mosques, and the well to do individuals in the society? How long do we turn a blind eye to the plight of the youths. Where is the Godliness in our service to humanity? 

What is our account before God our maker? Seeking lost souls through help or making worship houses big, beautiful and crowded?

 

This could be your brother, your husband, your father, your friend, your relative, Africa have to rise up against this disease called slavery and now is the time. 

The world can't and won't do it for us... only we can do it.... and now is the time.

 

 

#StoptheslavetradeinLibya

By Olomo