The House of Representatives has resolved to investigate alleged illicit trade on human organs between Nigeria and China. According to him, they were found in 36 boxes labelled as plantain on the ship that harboured at the Shanghai port called Red Market. The Rep said that perpetrators of the illicit trade generated between US$ 600 million to US$ 1.2 billion profit annually. Kwewum recalled that in 1987, the World Health Organisation (WHO) declared that the illegal trade violated the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The house mandated the Committees on Human Rights and National Security and Intelligence to investigate the whole gamut of this value chain, known as Red Market or illicit market in human organs.

Source: The Guardian April 22, 2021 15:22 UTC