HE LEFT HOME TO KICK A BALL AT 14. THEY FOUND HIM IN PRISON 18 YEARS LATER.
Nigeria, someone explain this.
2007. A 14-year-old boy named Gospel Uabari Kinanee stepped out to play football with friends. Normal day. Normal child. Normal game.
He never came back.
His family turned everywhere upside down. Hospitals. Police stations. Churches. Mortuaries. Every rumour, they chased it. Weeks became months. Months became years. Still nothing.
The pain broke them completely. His parents sold everything they owned searching for their son. They dïêd without ever finding out what happened to him.
Everyone eventually accepted the worst.
Then, eighteen years later — not one, not five, not ten — EIGHTEEN YEARS — his elder brother got a phone call.
"We found your brother."
Found him where?
In a correctional facility in Rivers State.
The boy who vanished at 14 had been behind bars the entire time. When family members asked for records, there were reportedly no clear answers. No family visits. No one looking for him. No voice. No hope. Just years disappearing silently, one after another.
But the most devastating part isn't even the prison.
It's what eighteen years inside did to him.
He now struggles to recognise his own family. He cannot properly explain what happened to him or where his life went.
Eighteen years. Gone. Just like that.
If this story is true, every Nigerian should be asking the same questions right now.
How does a child vanish inside a system meant to protect him? How many others are sitting somewhere at this moment, waiting for someone to remember they exist?
Today it is Gospel. Tomorrow it is someone's brother. Someone's son. Someone's father.
This is not just one man's story. This is about justice. About accountability. About a system that is supposed to protect people — not quietly swallow them whole.
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For over a decade, I thought I had a male brain in a female body. In other words, I considered myself 🏳️⚧️ transgender.
Now, I’ve quit my gender transition, and have decided to go on a health and weight loss journey. I’ve lost over 40 pounds and I’m close to my goal weight.
With every pound I’ve lost, I become even more shocked that I managed to bind my chest for as long as I did.
The measures I took as an adolescent to ‘correct’ this gender incongruence have destroyed my upper body- both in form and in function.
I have a nerve injury, horribly flared ribs, damaged breast tissue, no positive sensation in the area, weakened skin, decreased lung capacity, severe left side back and neck pain…. Just to name a few.
Shapewear can hide quite a few of these things. But there are certain things that even multiple layers of shapewear can’t hide.
None of the trans adults guiding me and other known minors online about how to bind our breasts in secret, told us that any of this could happen to us. The most they said was to not bind with an ace bandage specifically, because then you can crack a rib. Everything else, the said, was safe if you do it no more than 10-12 hours a day. Years later, that number changed to eight hours.
Why? Because they’re making it up as they go along.
What they did not warn me or my peers about was that all breast binding done for a gender affirming purpose is inherently unsafe, and even more so when it is done by someone whose upper body (breasts, lungs, heart, ribs, spine etc) are still actively growing.
Because the trans community is still overwhelmingly buying into the notion that things like breast binding can be done safely for months or years at a time, without any evidence supporting their claim, kids are still getting hurt.
If the blatant lies that were told to me as a 12 year old girl in 2011/2012 weren’t continually peddled by online & irl trans communities, I would have nothing to speak out about.
But truthfully, breast binding is one of those practices that everyone still thinks is ok to lie about the harms of.
Parents are still buying their daughters breast binders thinking that they are “safe and reversible” or that these medical devices used for post surgical recovery are somehow “just pieces of clothing.” This includes parents who are already concerned about the medical harms of gender transition, but think that breast binding is a good compromise. It is NOT. It is actively hurting your growing kids.
Gender clinics promote these practices as being safe.
Schools still give out these dangerous medical devices to children without their parents’ knowledge. These are all big problems.
Take my story as a cautionary tale. Using multiple layers of shapewear, I might look ‘normal.’
Underneath it all, my left scapula aches before sending tingling sensations and then numbness down my left arm, whenever I stand or walk too long, or whenever I use a small shoulder bag. I’m almost 27, and I need a neck brace just to sleep. I cannot take deep breaths without pain. My ribs constantly feel like they’re hooking onto things underneath me when I’m lying on my side. That is in fact a very painful experience. There is no positive sensation in my chest and the entire area is deformed.
Gender affirming breast binding is NEVER harmless, nor does it cause damage which is easily reversible, or which is reversible at all. Most of this damage is not ‘a broken rib that will heal on its own.
It is done with no end in sight, and not under the strict supervision of a doctor monitoring the patient (as they would be in the case where a maximum of six weeks of binding is the post surgical recovery protocol).
It’s time that we all take the harms of gender affirming breast binding seriously. Not one study has shown that it can be done safely.
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A drunk policeman shot me at a checkpoint in 2011.
The bullet tore through my car, through my right hand.
I lost my career as an animator. My marriage cracked. My mind still bleeds.
The twist?
I sued the Nigeria Police. Won in 2015.
Judge said: "Pay his medical bills."
10 years later. Zero naira.
I face permanent disability without help.
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