The National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP) has pledged to ensure justice for victims of alleged illegal human organ harvesting in Plateau, involving one Noah Kekere and two other suspects.
Kekere and his accomplice were alleged to have harvested a womanโs kidney during a surgery in a hospital in Jos.
They are currently in the Police custody.
In an interview on Tuesday with NAPTIP Director of Legal and Prosecution, Mr Hassan Tahir, he told NAN that the agency was on the issue and had carried out its own investigation on the matter.
โThe police is currently carrying out their own investigation and justice will be served on the matter at the end.
โWe have conducted our own investigations. The law gives us the power to prosecute.
โWe are cooperating with the police and also closely monitoring the case to ensure that justice is served.
โWe also understand that the suspect runs a hospital but he is not a member of the Nigerian Medical Association (NMA),โ he said.
Tahir noted that the issue of illegal organ harvesting was becoming rampant.
โNAPTIP has organised series of awareness campaigns to curtail it.
โWe went to markets and hospitals to create more awareness, sensitising and educating people on the ills of organs harvesting.
โWe are currently investigating five more cases of organ harvesting.
โWe call on the perpetrators of the evil act to desist from such,โ he said. (NAN). READ ALSO:
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