{"id":9233,"date":"2022-06-24T07:06:56","date_gmt":"2022-06-24T07:06:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/?p=9233"},"modified":"2022-06-24T07:09:01","modified_gmt":"2022-06-24T07:09:01","slug":"ekweremadu-organ-harvesting-isnt-ritual-killing-by-farooq-kperogi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/?p=9233","title":{"rendered":"Ekweremadu: Organ Harvesting Isn&#8217;t Ritual Killing By Farooq Kperogi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Organ harvesting doesn&#8217;t mean killing someone and selling their body parts for &#8220;money&#8221; or other kinds of &#8220;ritual.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a term for surgically removing a body organ, such as a kidney, from a healthy person who can live without it and transplanting it to the body of someone who is in danger of dying without it.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a crime in the UK and elsewhere if this is done without the consent of the organ donor.<\/p>\n<p>Ekweremadu&#8217;s child needs an organ to survive, and he is alleged to have brought in a donor from Nigeria whose consent he and his wife didn&#8217;t seek.<\/p>\n<p>Contrary to what people are saying on social media, he didn&#8217;t plan on killing someone and harvesting his body parts for &#8220;ritual.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Some Naija people no go kill pesin with their atavistic thinking. Everything is &#8220;ritual sacrifice&#8221;\ud83e\udd23<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Organ harvesting doesn&#8217;t mean killing someone and selling their body parts for &#8220;money&#8221; or other kinds of &#8220;ritual.&#8221; It&#8217;s a term for surgically removing a body organ, such as a kidney, from a healthy person who can live without it and transplanting it to the body of someone who is in danger of dying without [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9234,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[4750,1386,5318,66],"class_list":["post-9233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-opinion","tag-farooq-kperogi","tag-ike-ekweremadu","tag-organ-harvesting","tag-ritual-killing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9233"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9233"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9233\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9235,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9233\/revisions\/9235"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}