Shocking as Chinese authorities seize 7,221 human penises on cargo ship from Nigeria’s Lagos.
Former Minister of Aviation, Femi Fani-Kayode says a ship from Nigeria has been impounded while it was trying to smuggle 7, 200 penises into the Asian country.
A total of 7,221 penises of African origin
have been seized by the Chinese customs officers in what has now been tagged
the world’s biggest seizure of human organs in history.
The organs which were hidden in a refrigerated
freight container were seized when the ship harboured in the Shanghai Port
following information from an anonymous informer who alerted the Chinese
authorities.
The organs were packed in 36 boxes labelled as
‘plantains’ inside the refrigerated container on a ship which transited from
Lagos, Nigeria and ship’s crew consisting of four Nigerians, two Malians and
two Cameronese now being detained.
Speaking on the seizure, the spokesman of the
Chinese General Administration of Customs, Li Wu, says an increasingly large
number of armed groups in Africa use organ trafficking to finance themselves,
making such seizures predictable.
“These organs are common commodities now, but
they were certainly harvested in unsanitary conditions or contaminated at some
point, so we can’t let them out on the Chinese market.”
Mr. Li says the organs were shipped from Lagos
in Nigeria but may have only transited through that country and could possibly
originate from elsewhere in Africa.
“We know that penises from Lybia and Sudan fetch
a higher price than those from other African war zones, but can’t presume of
their origin before the end of the investigation.”
Describing the organ’s value as high as
illegal drugs, he said that “specimens of this size” usually fetched around
$160,000 each on the black market, and its total value was more than US$1.15
billion, adding that similar seizures may become more common over the next few
years as armed groups in Africa turn to organ trafficking to finance their
military operations.
Human penises were seized in nine cases since 2002, but today’s find represents more than four times the amount seized by customs officers over the past 18 years.
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