200 Nigerians Being Held Hostage by Libyan Rebels

The seeming crackdown on Africans in Libya - Nigerians in particular - continued on Tuesday, with the arrest of another 25 by the rebel-controlled Transitional National Council. According to a report monitored on The Nation, the development has brought the total number of Nigerians in their illegal detention camp to 200.

On Wednesday, there were increased fears by some Nigerians in Libya that those arrested may be killed by the rebels, if the federal government does not intervene early enough. A spokesman for trapped Nigerians in Tripoli, Mr. Daramola Siji, disclosed that those arrested are being detained in an area called Salahdin in the capital city. "We have no access to them at all," he added. 

With all these injustice being meted out to our brothers and sisters in Tripoli, one is forced to wonder if the presidency through the ministry of foreign affairs is still sympathetic to the Rebels' cause?