Group accuses Biotech Giants of targeting Nigerian Women For Deadly Organ Collection

The proliferation of complex diseases globally has created a search for organ donors in different parts of the world.

Patients, who are in need of organs for transplantation, move from country to country in search of donors who can provide them with a match, in most cases they buy. This has led to a global human market which is said to be one of the reasons for health tourism.

India has been identified as one of the countries enjoying high patronage in this market as there is a shortage of organs for the purpose of transplantation worldwide.

Following the massive influx of organ seekers in the western countries into the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, the government of India shut its doors to illegal organs transplantation.

This has led to the emergence of another market controlled by bio-tech companies who are involved in embryo trafficking whereby the eggs of women are harvested from IVF clinics and exported to western countries.

However, as a result of economic effects of this trend, a new decision to create a ‘human market’ was reached. This new trend allows scientists to clone organs of the body from eggs. This process is called therapeutic cloning.

Although, this new system seems like a solution to the problem, there is a far reaching consequence which poses great danger to the lives of egg donors.

The Chairman of the Global People Alliance, Philip Njemanze, raised an alarm that these biotech companies are now targeting Africa, particularly Nigeria, to raise a market which would supply 100 million eggs annually.

The problem is, who are you going to get these eggs from? For you to harvest the eggs, you have to administer a series of injections called ovarian hyperstimulation syndrome. This will stimulate the ovaries and all the tissues in the body of the woman.

Stimulation of the tissues means all the cells, including existing cancer cells, will grow. This will lead to a proliferation of cancer, kidney failure, infertility, brain failure and eventually death.

In Europe, Britain, America and most of the developed Asian countries, this practice has been banned.

“The focus is now on Africa where they try to create a whole new framework within Africa, so that it will be possible to come to Africa, change the laws and make them legal, so the eggs can be harvested from African women who will die 5 years down the line,” he stated.

Maputo Protocol: A Death Trap

Mr Njemanze also stated that the Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa, also known as Maputo Protocol, a 23 page document which guarantees comprehensive rights to women in the areas of politics, reproduction and female genital mutilation is a tool to create a new ‘human market’ in Nigeria and a means to legislate the harvesting of eggs.

Maputo Protocol also advocates the ban of the Holy Bible or Quran in schools; it supports abortion and same sex marriage.

According to Njemanze, parts of the document have been integrated into the National Health Bill as section 52 to 58 legalises organ harvesting without the consent of the patient.

He added that the law had also been domesticated in Imo State via the Imo State Law 7 which legalises abortion, same sex marriage, ban of the Bible and Quran in schools.

He stated that Nigeria is the target market for this group of biotech companies who want 100 million eggs a year which will come from 10 million women.

“The Nigerian government and Nigerian legislature are actually assisting this process, though sometimes ignorantly and other times knowingly,” he added.