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Inside human parts market in Lagos.
Sunday, February 15, 2009

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Jankara market is self- effacing and deceptively ordinary. Located close to Idumagbo area of Lagos Island, the market is just a stretch of an old street.

Ears on the ground
Like other streets and markets, canvassers and touts hang around the place pitching for customers and mugus (gullible people). Though low in reputation,touts are an essential segment of this time – honoured market. Over the years, the place has come to be known as a place where any thing goes. And so, the touts come handy here.
They have their ears on the ground, and therefore know all the goings-on.

Book and wait
A week ago, our reporter posed as a juju priest who was in dire need of human body parts for urgent rituals. After about four hours of waiting and being passed from one “contact” to another, and played around like ping-pong, the reporter got a dealer who “booked” him. The rule here is, if you want a fresh human body part, you book and wait. If your order is for dry parts you get instant delivery.
But you must be an expert in human anatomy to decipher the parts you want from man’s closest animal relations – gorilla, chimpanzee and monkey.

Dark secret
But don’t jump to a hasty conclusion, there are genuine traders and honest businessmen and women at Jankara.They perhaps don’t even know that the place also habour a dark secret. A police post even looks over the place. A signpost calls it Oko Awo Police Post. An office on the counter there stared at our reporter angrily when he asked him if the police know about the wheeling and dealing in human body parts in the area: “What kind of question be this? I beg go, no be for here—o” the police officer retorted angrily.

Menumo
This expression when translated literally means “seal your lips” in Yoruba. The term is said in whisper and hushed tone — menu…mo .When you say the first syllable, you pause, look around to be sure there’s no third party or curiosity cat eaves dropping. When a deal is struck, you will be taken to some dank shanties and courtyard for your consignment.

The business is all about raw cash. A fresh human head has a street value of N250, 000. Fresh internal organs like heart, lung, kidney, and so on go for 500,000 a piece.
Other vital parts like penis, vagina and breast costs N50,000 each.Fresh tongue is sold at N100,000.
Sunday Sun learnt when a tongue is “ritualized and jujufied” that it “works well” for traders and people who apply for visa to go abroad “when well prepared, no one go question you for embassy and even your working place”, a dealer whose alias is Baba Ibeji revealed.
Toe and finger, Sunday Sun further learnt are good for travelers and business people. “ The toe is for traveling without falling.
The finger is to make money. Any thing you touch turns to money”, Baba Ibeji said.
Fresh toe and finger goes for N50,000 each.

Ritual animals
Even animals considered endangered species are not spared in Jankara. Herbalist beside the area’s butcher shop openly sell a wide range of animals. Imprisoned in wire-mesh cages are live animals like eagles, tortoise, chamellion, alligator and so on. A live eagle goes for N10,000.
Dead and dry one costsN500,000. Live Tortois costN5,000 while ordinary empty one is sold for N2,500.
Live chamelion costs N2,500. Dead and dry one goes for N2,000. The lizard-like creature, Sunday Sun learnt, is in demand by Advance Fee Fraudster —419. “When the thing is worked”, it means the more you look, the less you see, you will never caught,” one of the dealers who declined to give his name said.

Tough-skinned
The dealers know their terrain and the world they inhabit.They smell and sense danger in the air all the time. They are inclined to do business with you if you mention and have a prove of a regular Juju priest and customer. Even at this, they will still carry out a check on you. There’s no physical search. Under the pretex of “bringing your thing”, they will call your guarrantor and run a check on you. Any discovery of falsehood, they will cancel the deal and melt out of sight, leaving you to wait forever

Where missing people go
Jankara might be the possible place where missing persons in Lagos resurface but reduced to faceless, liveless body parts. As though to corroborate this, the managing director of Lagos State waste Management Authority (LAWMAN), Mr Ola Oresanya told Sunday Sun in an interview that hardly a day passes in the city without street sweepers and refuse collectors picking dismembered corpses and body parts.

“The corpses and body parts may be the handwork of ritualist and hit-and-run drivers”, he said.
Meanwhile Sunday Sun learnt that the morgues in the city are brimming with unclaimed dcorpses.There’s no more land for mass burial. So cremnation is the only option,” the source said.

http://www.sunnewsonline.com/webpages/news/national/2009/feb/15/national-15-02-2009-01.htm

I hope Lagos State Gorvenor or commissioner of Police will come across this news

Westside

After 12 good years, this is coming to FP.

Never lose hope, God will still change your story.

Okijajuju1:
LOL!!

I love my country jare!!
Man must wac. period. endangered species indeed.

okijajuju1 as you still alive?


Longest time.

Mariangeles i nukwala nke a?

Been in existence for decades.
Ask elders who have been to Lagos or reside in Lagos, they'll tell you.

One is in Calabar (Watt Market) according to reports too.

Our leaders can't pretend they don't know about these places.

Nairaland mods are something else.Since 2009 this thread was created and it's just hitting fp today.considering the time frame,many people must have been killed there since that 2009.But if it's Tonto dike vagina,or Angel Toto,it would have graced front page with the speed of light.

Jakumo:



The[size=18pt] Human Parts Market of Jankara, Lagos, Nigeria[/size].   

I chit you not !    Ha hahaha ha ha .  Damn, my sides hurt.

Now thisi-here is the REAL sh-bhang y'all, so move over, Rover, because I'm here to talk about the The REAL CHIT.  And I ain't talking 'bout none of that wimpy-asz ketchup and Hollywood special-effects movie chit y'all is used to neither, homie, 'cause what Nigeria got is waayy more serious than that.  Tell you what, you'll never look at a stack of barbecue spare-ribs the same way again, after you check out this market. ha ha

Kicking off with the first of my many questions, how soon can we expect the Jankara Human Parts Market to put up a web-site highlighting the kidnapping, murder and dismemberment processes that make their organization one of the most renowned and successful in all of Nigeria ?  Reflecting over the availability of fresh vaginas for sale in Jankara Market, I can only imagine the sort of jokes that would get told as such sales are transacted.   On a more serious note, are the breasts sold singly, or as a pair, and can they be returned to the seller after a trial period, for replacement or upgrade to newer models ?

Naturally, overseas customers looking to get AHEAD of the competition in business and love may wish to order fresh African cranial specimens for their Juju and Santeria rituals, BUT, with Nigeria's reputation for providing no grid electricity to power the deep-freezers that are needed to keep cool heads in the Jankara Cadaver Warehouses, frequent assurances will have to be issued,  to the effect that all cold-rooms are powered by multiple redundant back-up generators that are imported, as opposed to being Aba-made or even Indian-made.

The organized exploitation of this vital human resource certainly must be cause for great professional pride among the commodity traders in that ever-popular line of work, which again proves that Nigeria is HEADED in the right direction, and making great HEADWAY in its commitment to the more unconventional, innovative and daring initiatives of trade and commerce. 


Let us all Hold our Heads Up High in the Air, and wave 'em about like we just don't care.

Heartless

Okijajuju1:
LOL!!

I love my country jare!!
Man must wac. period. endangered species indeed.

Make your body parts available for them to Wac. Agent of the devil.

2009 - 2022 nothing has changed! SMH!

RIP Bamise...

God help us all.

No pictures = fake news. I won’t read that shit.

These mods are smoking molly

That market has been there for many decades.I was there in late 90s and the slogan for human part is MENUMO

No pictures or video evidence. .
Nonsense and nairaland

I fear who no fear these Westerners.

What manner of wicked humans are these people with their evil handwork?

Tufiakwa... God forbid

suffering:
No pictures = fake news. I won’t read that shit.

It’s not fake but real.I have been to the market in late 90s and you can easily get any human part from that market

LLiKYekoba:


Why is it that whenever you yorubas are called out for your propensity for ritualism and human parts merchandize, you start pointing fingers and reminding us about few cases like Clifford Orji, Otokoto that happened eons ago when 75% of people on this forum were not yet born?
You keep playing to the gallery while as we speak somebody somewhere in a bush in yorubaland is mauling a victim, decapitating and cutting up his/her vital organs to be sold to a client, all in real time.

I have done my study and found out that yoruba culture exalts use of human parts for rituals. Even Awolowo (a revered yoruba leader and Ogboni confraternity member) once defended a yoruba king who killed a little girl and harvested her parts for ritual purposes.

Tufia!

You dey mind them? We Igbos sabi call out our own evils by ourselves. Did we not start the news of the devastation of mkpurumiri in the Southeast by ourselves? Igbos are the only people who call out their leaders first before anyone else does. We started showcasing the evils and sad end of money ritual since the 90s. Most of the ills in Igbo society, we condemn with our movies since the time of living in bondage. We as a people do not tolerate evil. The only reason some of us seem to still be supporting ipob is that the agitation is justified and the civilian killings attributed to them is somehow still not proven yet. One concrete evidence showing ipob behind the premeditated killing of an innocent civilian will see the Igbo youths rise up against them. Let the yorubas continue covering their evils until they are swallowed by it.

The most surprising and also annoying part of this whole issue is that the Yorubas, especially their Obas who have considerable influence over their people have never condemned this barbaric killings in their land. It shows that these incessant killings going on in the west is fully supported by their leaders.
They don't deem it necessary to stand against the devilish act instead what they are after is for one drug lord and thief to be the Nigerian president.

Ndi Uchu'

Just wondering why this evil is allowed to stand. People are dying needlessly.

Is it still operational?

Reading

jyz200:
The police should investigate this if it’s truest

How? no evidence

OsunAmazon:
Who are these human spare part merchants?. Are they so invisible that the police can't arrest them?. How much do they sell human kidneys?

You have it for sale or you want to buy?

jyz200:
The police should investigate this if it’s true

This market has been around since 2009

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Unless they reject Islam and accept christ in it's entirety as the only true way to know peace, this kind of news will not cease to be heard among the yorubas.

Do you ask yourself why the igbos have done away with their old fetish way of life It's because Christianity strongly condemn the worship of idols in it's entirety.

Forgodsgrace:


It’s not fake but real.I have been to the market in late 90s and you can easily get any human part from that market

such nonsense can exist in the open you dumb brain..