{"id":43963,"date":"2023-03-24T00:04:23","date_gmt":"2023-03-24T00:04:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=43963"},"modified":"2023-03-24T00:04:23","modified_gmt":"2023-03-24T00:04:23","slug":"how-a-millionaire-nigerian-politician-trafficked-a-lagos-street-hawker-to-london-to-harvest-his-kidney-for-his-ailing-daughter-david-joness-chilling-investigation-begs-the-question-just-how-wide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2023\/03\/24\/how-a-millionaire-nigerian-politician-trafficked-a-lagos-street-hawker-to-london-to-harvest-his-kidney-for-his-ailing-daughter-david-joness-chilling-investigation-begs-the-question-just-how-wide\/","title":{"rendered":"How a millionaire Nigerian politician trafficked a Lagos street hawker to London to harvest his kidney for his ailing daughter: DAVID JONES&#8217;s chilling investigation begs the question&#8230; just how widespread is this macabre trade?"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-41912\" src=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/sonia-and-mum-300x205.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"205\" srcset=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/sonia-and-mum-300x205.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/sonia-and-mum.jpeg 343w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>One day last May, a dishevelled young man from\u00a0<span data-track-module=\"internal-body-link\"><a id=\"mol-886fc500-c9c5-11ed-9b8d-e779c40954b7\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/nigeria\/index.html\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener\">Nigeria<\/a><\/span>\u00a0walked into the police station at Staines, in Middlesex, saying he was\u00a0<span data-track-module=\"internal-body-link\"><a id=\"mol-88625780-c9c5-11ed-9b8d-e779c40954b7\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/homelessness\/index.html\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener\">homeless<\/a><\/span> and destitute, and pleading for help. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-11896633\/How-millionaire-Nigerian-politician-trafficked-Lagos-man-London-harvest-kidney.html\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>One day last May, a dishevelled young man from\u00a0Nigeria\u00a0walked into the police station at Staines, in Middlesex, saying he was\u00a0homeless and destitute,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":43964,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-43963","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Sonias-donor.jpeg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43963","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43963"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43963\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43965,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43963\/revisions\/43965"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}