Remi Adeleke
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There's a saying in Nigeria, every day is for the thief. Corruption was my dad's demise. They knew that my father would not stop fighting them. They killed my dad. I went from riches and wealth to the Bronx, man, and it was really, really rough. Once you make the decision to join the Navy, in my opinion, you're giving up any fear of death.
One day, I got approached by another human trafficking nonprofit that actually employed former SEALs and former agency guys to go to other countries to rescue kids trapped in sex trafficking, but specifically kids who are being purchased by Americans.
When I got down there, my eyes were just, like, opened fully, and I just remember being appalled that parents would sell their daughters to traffickers in the North. I just remember being disgusted. It's such a global issue. But human trafficking is a blanket term. Under human trafficking, you have sex trafficking, you have organ harvesting, you have forced marriage, you have forced labor.
You know, I made the film in order to be able to expose more people to this atrocity of organ harvesting. But the perception of these traffickers is that they're these scraggly, evil-looking, uneducated, you know, on-the-corner type people. And the reality is the majority of people involved on the organ harvesting side of things are highly educated, learned people.
The truth needs to get out there.