The house of representatives has
resolved to probe a report on a confiscated shipment of p3nises from Nigeria —
only that no such thing happened.
At Thursday’s plenary session,
the green chamber deliberated on a motion on the purported shipment which was
said to be on its way to China.
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.”
Pause. It is purely a satire.
The lawmakers approved the
motion, not knowing that the story in question was fabricated by a satirical
website.
Checks by TheCable showed it was
first reported on March 19 by World News Daily Report (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.
According to a disclaimer on the
WNDR website, “all characters appearing in the articles in this website – even
those based on real people – are
entirely fictional and any resemblance between them and any persons, living,
dead, or undead is purely a miracle.
“WNDR assumes however all
responsibility for the satirical nature of its articles and for the fictional
nature of their content.”
So, who will tell the lawmakers?
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