Organ harvesting - Nigeria

[Slow.Patrol]

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15364273/...

I thought I was beyond being shocked.

[Earthdweller]

Man's inhumanity to his fellow man never ceases to surprise

[KAgantua]

Nigeria and Ghana are pretty wild places by all accounts

The people can be awesome though

[Crumpet]

KAgantua said:

Nigeria and Ghana are pretty wild places by all accounts

The people can be awesome though

I lived and worked in Nigeria for quite a few years so know it well. Pretty much been everywhere in the country, albeit never too far off the beaten track. Ghana never caused any concerns for me and always feels safe.

To me it s a country of extremes; I love it and I hate it. The people can be absolutely awesome or utterly terrifying and dangerous.

None of this surprises me, though.

[jules_s]

Crumpet said:

I lived and worked in Nigeria for quite a few years so know it well. Pretty much been everywhere in the country, albeit never too far off the beaten track. Ghana never caused any concerns for me and always feels safe.

To me it s a country of extremes; I love it and I hate it. The people can be absolutely awesome or utterly terrifying and dangerous.

None of this surprises me, though.

My dad worked there (Sapele) between 78-81

Some of 'things' that happened there - you'd barely believe it if I typed it.

I visited several times and we did go 'off track' - the link posted doesn't surprise me one little bit :|

[abzmike]

I’ve been to quite a few places in Africa, including Nigeria, probably over a dozen trips. The one place I wouldn’t return to. Largely Lagos, but one trip to Benin City - the nastiest place I’ve ever been to, and the one place I’ve been spat on by a woman.
Human life has zero value there - I just feel sorry for the decent ones.

[Crumpet]

jules_s said:

Some of 'things' that happened there - you'd barely believe it if I typed it.

Yep. Ranging from the ridiculous to the macabre - and the ridiculous and the macabre together. Most stuff is hard to actually put in words.

I remember drinking a beer on the balcony and hearing a thud, followed by a plume of smoke over the nearby market. Boko Haram doing what they do.

Also remember seeing an RAF Hercules pull up in Abuja and a lot of serious looking chaps getting off. A day later the SBS were involved in a hostage rescue in the north of the country.

Good times.

On another note, there are a lot coming to the UK at the moment. I hope it’s the incredibly friendly ones and not the others.

[jules_s]

^^^^^

Macabre mostly

abzmike said:

Benin City - the nastiest place I've ever been to.

We went there several times, despite being warned.

Basically we were met by dozens of pre-teenage amputees - supposedly bred by parents who amputated limbs to make them better beggars.

Organ harvesting doesn't surprise me - apologies if any of that offends, but that was the reality of it all.

[Crumpet]

jules_s said:

apologies if any of that offends, but that was the reality of it all.

It’ll offend some. But the do-gooders in this country are often rather naive (clueless) to who and what we let into the UK. The world is a stty place at times with some seriously stty people.

[chemistry]

Crumpet said:

On another note, there are a lot coming to the UK at the moment. I hope it s the incredibly friendly ones and not the others.

Let's be honest, it's bound to be a mix of both.

[iphonedyou]

Crumpet said:

It ll offend some. But the do-gooders in this country are often rather naive (clueless) to who and what we let into the UK. The world is a stty place at times with some seriously stty people.

You may have mixed up your quoting. Jules made no reference to immigration.

The lack of value placed on human life in so many parts of the world continues to astound me.

[bucksmanuk]

jules_s said:

Basically we were met by dozens of pre-teenage amputees - supposedly bred by parents who amputated limbs to make them better beggars.

Organ harvesting doesn't surprise me - apologies if any of that offends, but that was the reality of it all.

Oh My God, I know bad things have happened, do happen and will continue to happen - but that has taken my breath away.

[Mabbs9]

Crumpet said:

KAgantua said:

Nigeria and Ghana are pretty wild places by all accounts

The people can be awesome though

I lived and worked in Nigeria for quite a few years so know it well. Pretty much been everywhere in the country, albeit never too far off the beaten track. Ghana never caused any concerns for me and always feels safe.

To me it s a country of extremes; I love it and I hate it. The people can be absolutely awesome or utterly terrifying and dangerous.

None of this surprises me, though.

I just got back from Ghana this morning and agree fully with Crumpet. Ghana after knowing Nigeria felt similar at first but it's a much much milder and friendlier place. Nigeria is certainly a country for serious caution at all times.

[IanH755]

Having lived/visited/invaded my way around the world for the past 35 years both as a civvy and in the military, one thing that always stands out to me with the various cultures - a hell of a lot of people really don't think like we do - and that can both a good thing (fresh perspectives) and a terrifying thing (cost of human life) depending on the individual, and a lot of "pearl clutchers" really don't understand that simple fact, leading to pain and suffering for everyone.

[gruffalo]

I remember a spate of this happening in the late 1990's in, I think New Orleans and Atlanta, to conference attendees who had their drinks spiked. They woke up in the bath of their rooms with a note telling them to phone 911 as they no longer had any kidneys.

They were being harvested by medical students who were being blackmailed to perform the surgery by gangs who sold the organs on the black market in Mexico.

Barbaric.

[franki68]

Read a while back that islamists in Nigeria according to the UN had killed 350,000 people almost all children,other estimates put the figure between 50-100,000
Now that’s the UN who are probe to talk utter st but what isn’t discussed is a lot of these killings are brutal ,usually decapitation with machete’s .

[blueg33]

happens in Europe too.

I found this account hard to listen to

https://youtu.be/dpQkDhUJU7s?si=KixwembxFJH8MakY

This is mainly about trafficking but organ harvesting comes into it.

There are some fked up people on this planet

Edited by blueg33 on Tuesday 9th December 14:52

[Lotobear]

Also happens in the UK

https://vita-network.com/a-case-study-within-the-u...

[fido]

I still remember the good old days when they just did credit card fraud.