2 more doctors nabbed over organ harvesting

The Police Command in Plateau has arrested two other medical doctors in connection with the alleged harvest of vital human organs by one Noah Kekere, a suspected quack doctor.

DSP Alabo Alfred, the command’s Police Public Relations Officer, said on Tuesday in Jos, that the suspects, alongside Kekere, were currently in Police custody undergoing investigation.

Kekere, a suspected quack doctor, was recently arrested after he was accused of harvesting a woman’s kidney during a surgery.

The Plateau Chapter of the Nigerian Medical Association had dissociated itself from Kekere, insisting that its investigations had revealed that he was not a medical doctor.

Alabo did not however disclose the identity of the two suspects.

Meanwhile, the Commissioner of Police in the state would constitute a high powered committee of medical experts to extensively investigate and examine the woman who claimed Kekere removed one of her vital organs during a surgery.

The spokesman said this would enable the command ascertain if truly the vital organ of the victim was tempered with.

“We have arrested two additional suspects who actually conducted the surgery on the said woman, we are in touch with the Ministry of Health in the state and the NMA to give us some professionals that will assist us in our investigation.”

Alabo explained that investigation so far had revealed that Kekere was not a trained medical doctor as he had been parading himself.

Kekere was arrested by the police after a businessman, one Alhaji Kamal, accused him of removing one of his wife’s kidney during a surgery in 2018.

Kamal said that his wife, Kehinde, who had been suffering from chronic stomach pain for five years, was rushed to Kekere’s clinic located in Nasarawa Gwom, Jos.

He said that Kekere carried out a medical diagnosis on the woman and concluded that she had a ruptured appendicitis and needed urgent surgery, and the operation was carried out.