After the seizure of a cargo ship that sailed from Nigeria with 7,200 refrigerated male organs found in 36 boxes labelled as plantain at Shanghai port, known as Red Market in China, the House of Representatives yesterday resolved to investigate the development.
The Chinese General Administration of Customs had written to the Nigerian authorities that an increasingly large number of armed groups in Africa use organs harvested in unsanitary conditions to finance their activities.
The House resolution followed the consideration of a motion, titled “Need to Investigate the Illicit Trade in Human Organs”, co-moved by Rimamnde Shawulu Kwewum from Taraba State and Olajide Olatubosun from Oyo State at Thursday’s plenary.
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The House stated that the perpetrators of the illicit trade generate between $600 million and $1.2 billion dollars profit annually, adding that the poor security situations has made Nigeria and other African countries a hotspot for their nefarious activities.
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