Credible information reaching Today indicates that scores of Ghanaians are being killed on a daily basis by ISIL affiliates (rebels) in Libya whose target is the non-Muslim community.
Statistics available to Today indicate that three Ghanaians were killed in January this year by the rebels in Libya. Our findings further revealed several others were also killed from the period 2014 to 2015.
According to sources, the Ghanaians who were beheaded in Tripoli and Sirte in Libya were natives of Techiman, Dorman in the Brong Ahafo region and Northern region of Ghana.
That gruesome murder, according to our sources, happened on the blind side of officials of Ghana Embassy in Libya. And that worrying development, Today learnt, has created fear and panic amongst about 50,000 Ghanaians in Libya.
The paper was reliably informed that following that development many Ghanaians dread going to work.
Speaking on Enyidado FM, an Awutu Senya-based radio station in the Central region on Wednesday, March 3, 2015 from Libya, some Ghanaians who had become stranded in Libya revealed how their colleagues were being killed in bomb attacks on vehicles carting mainly dark-skinned people.
According to them, while several countries had evacuated their nationals, hundreds of Ghanaians were still stranded in various locations in Libya because their frantic calls to the Ghana mission in Libya were not answered.
“Even knowing how to get out of Libya is a big problem for us. My brother [referring to our reporter] nothing shows that we have an ambassador in Libya or Ghanaian Embassy here.
“…He [Ghana’s Ambassador] and his staff are not doing their work. The rebels killed a lot of Ghanaians in Libya in July 2014, but the Ghanaian Embassy claimed it did not hear about the said killing incident which was even reported by BBC,” they lamented.
They added, “the officials at the embassy do not care about we Ghanaians in Libya. No one knows the ambassador’s contact number. Even if you go to the embassy to look for the ambassador …you will not even see him there,”
Ghanaians in Libya told this reporter via WhatsApp.
The distraught Ghanaians, therefore, made a passionate appeal to President John Dramani Mahama to send a rescue mission team to evacuate them from Libya to Ghana.
They claimed that they were unable to reach the Ghana Ambassador and staff of the Embassy in Tripoli for help and were also unable to get out of their safe havens because the rebels were after them.
They revealed that about 50,000 Ghanaians in Libya were currently using their work places as their place of abode for fear of being killed.
What was very irking, the worried Ghanaians indicated, was their inability to get access to officials of the Ghana embassy.
One of the suffering Ghanaians who gave his name as Jonas Ahangor a.k.a Gyenyame, told the host of Enydado FM’s Morning Show, Oman Nana [Sammy Essel,] on Wednesday, March 3, 2015 that: “In my estimation more Ghanaians have been killed by rebels between 2014 and 2015 so far and over 50,000 of us who are leaving in Libya are now seeking refuge in various sites of projects in towns and villages in Libya waiting for Ghana government to come to our aid.”
Mr. Ahangor who described Libya as “hell for Christians” made it clear that “our leaders over here; I mean the Embassy staff, do not think about us at all.”
“…anytime we reported to them that our brothers and sisters were being beheaded or killed by the rebels, the Embassy would come out to deny our claims. I would like to make it clear that we have enough evidence here for whoever doubts to come and see,” he stressed.
He continued that “if care was not taken, the death rate of Ghanaians will go up in the next few days.”
He disclosed that some Ghanaians were still working under the guidance of their employers, revealing that the small airport in Libya was destroyed by jet fighters in the evening of Friday, March 6, 2015.
Mr. Ahangor noted that the Libya farmers and construction firms accommodated the Ghanaian nationals but they could not provide them food and clothing, so “we are really in a difficult situation in our hideouts in in various sites of projects in Libya.”
Others who said they were also victims of the rebel attack indicated that they witnessed a colleague in a bomb attack.
According to them, they are trapped in their various houses at Zintan in Tripoli because they are unable to go to work, and the shops around where they stayed had been deserted because “the shop owners had moved out the food and items into their homes for their personal use.”
It would be recalled that reports on Ghanaians being killed in Libya started about two years ago.
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