Police arrest 2 Plateau doctors for removing woman’s kidney

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

The Command’s spokesman, DSP Alabo Alfred, who disclosed this in Jos, the Plateau State capital, on Tuesday, September 19, 2023, said the suspects, alongside Kekere, are currently in police custody and are being investigated.

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

The Plateau State chapter of the Nigerian Medical Association (NMA) had dissociated itself from Kekere, insisting that investigations revealed that he was not a medical doctor.

Alabo, who did not disclose the identity of the two medical doctors, added that the Plateau State Commissioner of Police would soon constitute a committee of medical experts to extensively investigate and examine the woman who claimed Kekere removed one of her vital organs during surgery.

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The police spokesperson stated that the move would enable the Command to ascertain if the vital organ of the victim was truly tampered with.

He said: “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 these allegations with a view to getting to the root of the matter.”

Alabo noted that investigations so far 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 kidneys during 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 Nasarawa Gwom, Jos North Local Government Area of Plateau State.

He disclosed that Kekere carried out a medical diagnosis on his wife and concluded that she had ruptured appendicitis and needed urgent surgery before the operation was carried out.

The Star