How two teenagers sold their organs including ovaries and eggs to a doctor in Ogun state for N100,000 each

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The police in Lagos have started an investigation into reports that two teenagers from the Iyana-Ipaja area of Lagos State sold their organs for N200,000 to a doctor in Abeokuta, Ogun State, two months ago, without their parents’ consent.

According to Vanguard, the two teenagers, Precious Ikechukwu, 17, a Pentecostal Bishop’s daughter in Lagos, and Theresa Obam, 19, are accused of conspiring with Mrs. Adeleke Blessing, an adult church member, to visit a doctor at Redwood Specialist Hospital in Abeokuta, where their organs were sold for N100,000 each.

In accordance with the report, their act was discovered on September 12, 2022, when Precious, the founder and daughter of the bishop of Living Word Anointed Gospel Mission in Iyana-Ipaja, Lagos, started vomiting. Her father, Ikechukwu Umeayo, took her to the hospital because he believed she had malaria or typhoid. The doctor asked for a medical exam, which later revealed that she had damage to her anus and private parts.

 

The sick child, who reportedly lost consciousness after her medical condition was exposed, later recovered consciousness and told her father that Mrs. Adeleke Blessing, a female member of his church, had taken them to Ogun State where their organs had been sold to a doctor. The teenagers further claimed that Mrs. Adeleke persuaded them to commit the unlawful act because the bishop, her father, was underpaying them and promised to drive them to a location where they would be handsomely paid with N100,000. Additionally, they claimed Mrs. Adeleke had threatened to murder them if they told their father or parents.

 

The teenagers explained how the transplant was carried out, claiming that Mrs. Adeleke Blessing, also known as Mummy K, trafficked them to Redwood Hospital in Abeokuta, Ogun State, without their parents’ permission. There, they teamed up with Dr. Durodola and ended up giving them drug injections. They said that after being forced, they were then illegally transferred to a PDF hospital in Surulere, Lagos, where the doctor illegally took their ovaries, eggs, and organs while inflicting them with severe pain and bleeding.

 

The teenagers were transferred to a different hospital in Surulere, Lagos, following the shocking revelations. There, they underwent a medical laboratory test and scan that revealed the damage their 46 harvested ovaries had caused to their liver, uterus, urinary bladder, kidney, spleen, and gall bladder.

 

When contacted, Bishop Umeayo, the father of one of the teenagers, told Vanguard that when his daughter Precious was taken to the hospital and the test was done, her younger siblings informed him that they knew their sister was ill because she frequently visited the bathroom with medical equipment and came out dripping blood.

 

He claimed that Mrs. Adeleke, the main suspect, frequently attended church vigils and was staying with her mother-in-law in the compound where the church is located. According to information obtained, Favour resides with Bishop Ikechukwu, who pays his daughter Precious, a hairstylist, to make Mrs. Adeleke’s hair in return for money. The bishop also employs Favour as his secretary in the church and pays her N20,000 per month.

 

The incident was reported to the Iyana-Ipaja police station, and they later sent it for additional inquiry to the State Criminal Investigations and Intelligence Bureau, SCIID, Panti, Yaba, Lagos.

 

However, the case took a different dimension after lawyer to the aggrieved bishop, Ikechukwu Chiaha, suspected that the police may have compromised over the case, based on revelation by his client that the investigators were soliciting for amicable settlement and payment of N300,000, which he alleged police will take N200,000.  Based on this, Chiaha then transferred the case to National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons, NAPTIP, which has commenced fresh investigation.

Reacting to the allegation, the prime suspect, Mrs. Adeleke, said the victims voluntarily gave up their eggs.

 

”The two girls volunteered to donate their eggs to the hospital, after listening to my phone conversation with a doctor and, in return, they were compensated with N100,000, of which Favour gave me N20,000 for introducing them to the hospital.” she said

 

When contacted, Lagos State Police spokesman, David Hundeyin, said;

 

“It was not organ harvesters, the operation was carried out by a professional doctor and the process was legal. All documents were signed and the girls stated in the document that they were above 18 years. The doctor told them about the consequences of feeling pain for two days, after and they accepted and donated their organs. Unfortunately, they did not inform their father about it and the father is requesting for a N200 million as compensation.”