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Originally Posted by arista

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/stories-44007932




A future Illegal Migrant
who Failed to get this far.
Now back in Nigeria
His mum will be angry with him.
From the First radio report his Mother Sold a plot of Land
to get him on his way etc.

BBC World Reporter Colin Freeman:
[Evans William tells me he sold everything but the kitchen sink to fund his dream of getting to Europe. And I mean everything - his bed, his fridge, his TV, his spare clothes and his mobile phone. After borrowing yet more cash, he finally had enough to pay a smuggling gang to take him from Nigeria across the Sahara to Libya.
In all, it cost him £750 ($1,000), but he wasn't worried. Once in Europe, he figured, he could quickly earn enough to pay off his creditors, and eventually return home to start a business of his own.
It didn't quite work out like that. After six miserable months in Libya, where the gang forced him to work for nothing, he finally boarded a rickety boat to cross the Mediterranean. It got stopped by the Libyan coastguard, who threw him and 140 other passengers into a detention centre.
By then he'd had enough. When I met Evans last month, he'd just returned home to Benin City in southern Nigeria, where he was among hundreds of migrants staying in a government-requisitioned hotel. ]



Sign Of The Times

I saw that. I doubt it’s even true - just another sob story! Even if true he can’t just come here illegally to earn money to pay off his debts. It doesn’t work like that! So I wonder what he means by coming here legally - probably going to jump on a boat and claim refugee status!