Nigeria’s House of Representatives on Thursday resolved to probe a report on 7,200 refrigerated human penises, confiscated shipment from Nigeria.
The green chamber, during plenary session,deliberated on a motion of the purported shipment which was said to be on its way to China.
The motion was Sponsored by Rimamnde Kwewum and Olajide Olatubosun, respecitively, from Taraba and Oyo.
The motion sought the intervention of relevant government agencies in probing the reported illicit trade in human organs.
According to Kwewum, “about two weeks ago, acting on the information provided by an anonymous source, Chinese authorities seized a cargo ship that sailed from Nigeria with 7,200 refrigerated penises, which were found in 36 boxes labelled as plantain on the ship that harboured at the Shanghai port called Red Market.
“The Chinese General Administration of Customs had alerted that an increasingly large number of armed groups in Africa use organs which are harvested in unsanitary conditions to finance their nefarious activities.”
Investigation however revealed that it’s a purely a satire by a satirical website known as World News Daily Report (WNDR).
The lawmakers approved the motion, not knowing that the story in question was fabricated and published by the website.
Check by independent investigative media showed it was first reported on March 19 WNDR, a satirical website “where facts don’t matter.”
WNDR had said in its report: “Chinese customs officers have made the world’s biggest seizure of human organs in history this morning, a total of 7221 penises of African origin hidden in a refrigerated freight container.”
But the story, like every other article published on the website, was meant to be a satire and not from a real event.
There is also no record of such incident anywhere as confirmed by previous fact check reports including from Reuters.
However, videos emerged on the social media where animal parts which looks like human penis was been deliciously prepared in a kitchen and served to patronizers.
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