The body snatchers: how a young Nigerian man was lured to London in an organ-trafficking plot

David Nwamini was working at a market in Lagos when he was given the chance to start anew in the UK. He had no idea what was expected of him in return • The summer issue of the Long Read magazine is out now. Click here to order David Nwamini arrived in Lagos for the first time in 2016. He had come from a village in Ebonyi, a state in southeastern Nigeria. He was 15 years old, the eldest of nine siblings and his parents were farmers. When he was a boy, his father became sick and David started ...

By Alexis Okeowo