“The desert was the hardest part of the journey. That desert isn’t easy. That desert, once you get in, there is no going back. At night they’d come and wake us up and say they want to sleep with a woman. If you refuse, they’ll beat you or you’ll be shot or stabbed with a knife and die.We lost many of our friends, brothers and sisters. At the end, only ten people were left in the pickup truck out of all those who had started the journey.” Joy says.
The joni to Tripoli take one month. When dem reach, di woman tell Joy say she gats begin to work as ashawo inoda to pay back di money wey den take smuggle her. But because Joy no gree, dem lock her inside one room for one week without food. Finally, di woman allow Joy to begin work for one Libyan family as house geh. She stay dere for one year and a half. Di work hard but nobi she day collect her own salary. The Libyan woman con feel pity for Joy, she con cari her go town. Na for there Joy con meet one Naija guy wey she begin dey friend. Di Libyan woman approved di relationship and she con dey allow make Joy dey visit her bobo. Then Joy con cari belle but casala burst when di Nigerian woman find out, sotey she con send gangsters and nurse to go use force remove the belle. The Libyan woman help Joy to escape go meet her bobo but when she reached there, she meet them for her bobo house, but she manage to escape from dem again
“I jumped from the window and ran before they came back. The nurse was bringing an injection and other tools to abort the pregnancy, so I ran away. That’s how me and the man ran away. Then we fled across the sea.” She recounts.
After their difficult joni ontop sea, Malta con rescue dem. Today, Joy dey send message to di pipo wey still dey dream to go Europe through land. Beware say di joni na deadly waka.
