A chilling revelation by investigator and security threat analyst Mr. George Dosoo-Doyen has shed light on a worrying trend in human organ harvesting, where harvesters are now targeting penises.
This shocking development has raised concerns about the growing sophistication and depravity of organ-harvesting syndicates, who will stop at nothing to exploit vulnerable individuals for their body parts.
Mr. Dosoo-Doyen made this revelation in an exclusive interview with The Ghana Report.
According to Mr. Dosoo-Doyen, the demand for African penises, in particular, has risen significantly, driven by a twisted perception that they are more desirable to women.
This has led to a surge in cases of penises being harvested from unsuspecting victims, often under the guise of fake job offers or educational scholarships abroad.
Mr. Dosoo-Doyen added that there is a human trafficking syndicate operating in the West African sub-region that is in the business of abducting, killing, and harvesting the organs of innocent people.
They kill and harvest the body parts of their victims for sale in Thailand, Indonesia, India, Singapore, and other foreign countries for exorbitant fees.
“Penis harvesting and transplantation are famous in countries like China and Taiwan…Informally, the focus is to compete with the black community. There is this popular notion in other parts of the world that the African man is endowed and a performer in bed,” he explained.
Mr. Dosoo-Doyen further stated that on the African continent, the harvesters have additional motives and uses for such organs.
“In African countries, there are people who harvest organs for other reasons. For example, the spiritual aspects of life, just like the Abesim murder case, where a young man was found hoarding human organs in his fridge and supposedly selling the organs to spiritualists for ritual purposes,” he said.
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Mr. Dosoo-Doyen’s findings are particularly alarming in light of the growing interest in reconstructive penis transplant surgery.
The successes of transplants have fueled the underground and black market business for penises.
Amidst doubt as to whether transplanted penises could function properly, the girlfriend of the world’s second attempted but first successful penis transplant recipient was reported pregnant in 2015.
Dr. Andre van der Merwe of Stellenbosch University in Cape Town, South Africa, told CNN on Friday, June 12, 2015, that his patient told him the woman was about four months pregnant.
The man’s first penis was amputated as a life-saving measure after severe complications arose from a circumcision performed as part of a coming-of-age ceremony.
Dr. Merwe led a nine-hour operation in December to replace the penis at Tygerberg Hospital in Cape Town, where the transplant restored all of the man’s “urinary and reproductive functions.”
While some patients have undergone successful transplants, others have not found the procedure to be a solution.
The first penis transplant surgery in China ended when the recipient suffered a severe psychological reaction and requested removal.
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The first penis transplant surgery occurred in 2006 in China following the donation by a 22-year-old brain-dead man.
The operation was successful, but the team of surgeons had to remove the transplant two weeks later after 15 hours of complex microsurgery to attach the phallus.
According to Dr. Hu Weilie, the leader of the surgeons who performed the procedure at the Guangzhou General Hospital, “there was a strong demand from both the patient and his wife” for a transplant and the operation “was discussed again and again” and approved by the hospital’s ethics committee.
Dr. Hu documented the process in the peer-reviewed journal European Urology.
He added that before the surgery, the patient was unable to have intercourse or urinate properly as a result of an accident, but 10 days after the operation, the recipient was able to urinate.
Dr. Hu added that there were no signs of the 10-centimetre (4-inch) organ being rejected by the recipient’s body.
However, Dr. Hu said more cases and longer observation were needed to determine whether sexual sensation and function could be restored, but the “patient decided to give up the treatment because of the wife’s psychological rejection, as well as the swollen shape of the transplanted penis.”
At the height of the demands for human organs in various parts of the world, the Ghana Police Service has cautioned against organ harvesting.
The Anti-Human Trafficking Unit of the Ghana Police Service raised an alarm over organ harvesting syndicates that may lure members of the public abroad for illegal organ harvesting.
In 2021, the Head of the Anti-Human Trafficking Unit, Chief Superintendent Mike Baah, said some syndicates seek to lure unsuspecting victims abroad with juicy job offers and deals and urged Ghanaians to be alert and careful to avoid falling victim.
He said the syndicates were well-connected and powerful.
Chief Superintendent Mike Baah charged the security services to intensify efforts to arrest the organ-harvesting syndicates.
“Our focus must be to get the perpetrators, not the victims; they need your support,” he said.