Lucky Obukohwo, Reporting
The Plateau State Police Command said it has arrested two more medical doctors in connection with the alleged harvest of human organs by one Noah Kekere, a suspected quack doctor.
The command’s image maker, DSP Alabo Alfred, said the suspects, alongside Kekere, were currently in police custody, and were being investigated.
Recall that Kekere, a suspected quack doctor, was recently arrested after he was accused of harvesting a woman’s kidney during a surgery.
Alabo, who did not disclose the identity of the two suspects, added that the Commissioner of Police in the state would soon 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 PPRO said the move would enable the command to 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. The Commissioner of Police will constitute a committee of seasoned medical experts to look into the allegations with a view to getting to the root of the matter,” Alabo said.
He 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 one Alhaji Kamal, a businessman, had accused him of removing one of his wife’s kidneys during a surgery in 2018. Kamal said his wife, Kehinde, who had been suffering from chronic stomach pain for five years, was rushed to Kekere’s clinic, located in the Nasarawa Gwom community of Jos North Local Government Area.
He said Kekere carried out a medical diagnosis on his wife and concluded that she had ruptured appendicitis and needed urgent surgery, and so the operation was carried out.
Recall also that the Plateau State chapter of the Nigerian Medical Association (NMA) had dissociated itself from Kekere, insisting that investigations had revealed that he was not a medical doctor.