<div class="mail-message-header spacer">The National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP) has vowed to pursue justice for victims of human organ harvesting in Plateau, allegedly involving one Noah Kekere and two other suspects.</div> <div class="mail-message-footer spacer collapsible"> <div dir="auto"></div> <div dir="auto">Kekere and his accomplice were accused of harvesting a woman’s kidney during a surgery in a hospital in Jos.</div> <div dir="auto"></div> <div dir="auto">They are currently in the Police custody.</div> <div dir="auto"></div> <div dir="auto">NAPTIP Director of Legal and Prosecution, Hassan Tahir, on Tuesday told newsmen that the agency was on the issue and had carried out its own investigation on the matter.</div> <div dir="auto"></div> <div dir="auto">He said, “The police is currently carrying out their own investigation and justice will be served on the matter at the end.</div> <div dir="auto"></div> <div dir="auto">“We have conducted our own investigations. The law gives us the power to prosecute.</div> <div dir="auto"></div> <div dir="auto">He said NAPTIP are collaborating with the police in a close monitoring of the case in pursuit of justice.</div> <div dir="auto"></div> <div dir="auto"> <div dir="auto"> <div dir="auto">“We also understand that the suspect runs a hospital but he is not a member of the Nigerian Medical Association (NMA)."</div> <div dir="auto"></div> <div dir="auto">Tahir noted that the issue of illegal organ harvesting was becoming rampant.</div> <div dir="auto"></div> <div dir="auto">He said NAPTIP had organised series of awareness campaigns to curtail it.</div> <div dir="auto"></div> <div dir="auto">“We went to markets and hospitals to create more awareness, sensitising and educating people on the ills of organs harvesting.</div> <div dir="auto"></div> <div dir="auto">While calling on perpetrators to desist from the practice, he revealed that they were also investigating five other cases of organ harvesting.</div> </div> </div> </div>
