ORGAN HARVESTING: A medical expert has raised the alarm that according to the National Health Act 2014, the current legal position in Nigeria is that the law allows organ harvesting or forced trading on human organs without the consent of the affected individual.

Basic Facts

• A medical expert, Prof Philip Njemanze has made a case to the National Assembly on the position of Nigerian law, which he says allows organ harvesting.
• The position according to the Dr Philip Njemanze is the implication of some provisions of the National Health Act 2014, which was sponsored by the then Senator Ifeanyi Okowa.
• The professor alleges that there are foreign sponsors behind the National Health Act 2014.
• The issue of organ harvesting came to limelight following the arrest and prosecution of Senator Ike Ekweremadu in the United Kingdom.

What We Know

Prof Philip Njemanze is the Chairman of Global Prolife Alliance (GPA). Information on his Linkedin profile shows he is also the Chairman International Institutes of Advanced Research and Training at Chidicon Medical Center.

In a presentation to Nigeria`s National Assembly, the professor has the alarm that unless immediate caution is taken, about 10 million Nigerians are at the risk of dying in the hands of poachers who trade on human organs.

He said that this is because the current Nigerian legal jurisprudence supports this inhuman action by a few criminals. He contends that going by the provisions of the law, those who ply in this trade may find some legal support under the existing body of laws.

To support this opinion, the professor have revealed some sections of  the National Health Act 2014, which in his analysis permits harvesting of human organs in Nigeria against the will of those affected.

Particularly, he made reference to some sections of the Act, including – 13, 20, 43, 45, 48, 51, 53 and 58, which he has called for there immediate amendment as a matter of urgency to protect the lives of Nigerians who may be at the risk of legalized organ poaching in Nigeria.

He further alleged that there are foreign sponsors behind the National Health Act 2014.

Notable Quotes

In a lengthy submission to the National Assembly, the professor said, “National security demands Federal Government Amendment of the National Health Act 2014 to prevent mass harvesting of human organs and poaching of ovarian eggs.

“We would like to draw your attention to the Statues of the National Health Act 2014 (NHAct) that permit Human Organ Trafficking and Poaching of Ovarian Eggs without consent that may lead to deaths of millions of Nigerians.

“We hereby warn that if the NHAct is implemented without the proposed amendments it will facilitate the operations of International Organized Criminal Cartel on Human Organ and Ovarian Egg Trafficking. On the other hand, if terminated now and the crime exposed, Nigeria would be saved!”

“The first part of this project in Nigeria would provide the human organs to keep the rich Western patients alive, until they succeed with the therapeutic human organ cloning. Organ cloning using embryonic stem cells is a projected big business worth 30 trillion US dollars (one-third of the world economy) for the Western economies within the next 5-10 years of operation!

“This is the anticipated Western Economic Recovery Plan of the G7 countries to get ahead of Asia. This program is supported by most Western governments and many billionaire investors deceptively projecting Billionaire Philanthropic works. How does this work? To clone a tissue like heart, you will need to collect the nucleus (that stores all its genetic materials) of the heart of the sick person and place it in a human ovarian egg obtained from a woman through IVF (in-vitro fertilization).

“The new cell is put in tissue culture to grow into a heart, which could be transplanted to the sick person. The process of transferring the nucleus to the egg is called Somatic Cell Nuclear Transfer (SCNT). Has this worked? Yes! SCNT was applied in experiments of Dolly the Sheep derived by cloning. To perfect the SCNT process for therapeutic cloning, they will need millions of human ovarian eggs. It has been forbidden in all Western countries to collect the ovarian eggs of women for this experimentation.

“But the law like the British Embryology Law permits using human eggs from Africa and those of animals while banning the use of human eggs from Europe and America! It has been estimated that at least 100 million ovarian eggs poached from 10 million Nigerian women would be required annually for about 5 years.

“These Nigerian women will die shortly thereafter from complications of Ovarian Hyperstimulation Syndrome as a result of the multiple hormonal injections that stimulate the ovaries given at IVF Clinics. The ovarian eggs would be obtained through in-vitro fertilization (IVF). Women have to go for the procedure if they want to get pregnant or they are donating their ovarian eggs.

“The IVF Clinics in Nigeria are proliferating under the sponsorship of foreign owners using Nigerians as fronts for ovarian egg harvesting! What then would get Nigerian women to go for IVF? For this purpose, they instituted a massive vaccination program funded by the ‘Philanthropist’ billionaire and his related ‘reputed’ international and national organizations. The vaccination for polio and tetanus has at different times been coupled with ‘sterilizing agents’ even though denied by the international agencies, facts suggest otherwise.

“The billionaires bank-rolled the UN agencies for 20 years and staffed it with critical manpower working together to achieve this goal under the UN banner of deception that captivates most Nigerian officials! The billionaires own over 90% of the embryonic stem cell research companies. The ‘Philanthropic’ vaccine donations have laced common vaccines with infertility agent that reduces human chorionic gonadotropin (anti-HCG) to cause miscarriages. This has been done successfully with the tetanus vaccine and other common vaccines (see attached Talwar GP et al. A vaccine that prevents pregnancy in women (human chorionic gonadotropin/birth control vaccine) Proc. Nati. Acad. Sci. USA. 1994;91:8532-8536).

“The ovarian eggs could be poached through IVF after administering a set of hormonal injections. Faced with the challenge of bareness, Nigerian women will go for IVF, where 12 ovarian eggs could be poached and maximum of 2 used for trials. The rest are sold by IVF centres to Western laboratories working on embryonic stem cell research. According to the European Union report, Nigeria is the top country for export of human ovarian eggs (see attached Jana Tutkova, ‘Human Egg Trafficking in Europe’, European Policy Officer, Core 30th March, 2006).”

“About ten million Nigerian women could die in 2-3 years from the complications called Ovarian Hyperstimulation Syndrome (liver failure, kidney failure, cancers, infections, etc). These criminal actions must be protected by an enabling system law in Nigeria, hence the NHAct 2014, was designed to do just that in disguise. The so-called good statutes were framed as window-dressing to cover the main criminal statues,” he stated.

Takeaway

The revelation by Dr Philip Njemanze came on the hills of the human organ harvesting drama involving Nigeria`s former Deputy Senate President, Senator Ike Ekweremadu in the United Kingdom.

Clariform reports that the revelations made by the professor have not been supported by any known legal expert in the country. However, it is a clarion call notwithstanding, and the matters arising must be investigated.

This is especially in the consideration of the alarming allegation by Prof Njamanze that there are foreign sponsors behind the National Health Act 2014.

Catch-up

Clariform investigation reveals that the said National Health Act of 2014 was sponsored by the then Senator Ifeanyi Okowa. It was successfully passed in both houses of the National Assembly.

The bill eventually became law when it was also subsequently signed by President Goodluck Jonathan.