The Nationwide Company for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Individuals (NAPTIP) on Saturday stated it arrested one suspect in reference to organ harvesting in Akwa Ibom State.
Talking through the 2025 Nationwide Human Trafficking Consciousness Day, the State Zonal Coordinator of NAPTIP, Mr Emmanuel Awhen revealed that the company additionally secured over 60 convictions with over 15 instances nonetheless pending dedication in courts.
Saturday Telegraph studies that the state Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs, in collaboration with NAPTIP and the Community In opposition to Baby Trafficking, Abuse, and Labour made this identified at a press convention organised within the State.
Talking on the occasion, the Zonal Coordinator famous that organ harvesting has turn into a booming commerce within the state, and disclosed that some clinics and hospitals within the state are participating within the organ harvesting enterprise.
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Awhen, who was represented by the Head of Public Enlightenment of the company, Eme Ukpabio stated, “We’ve got had arrests, I can not depend, the arrest that we do, we convey them to the workplace and after we realise that the majority of those instances should not actually human trafficking instances, we ship them away.
“Those which are arrested and put in our centres and charged to court docket are many. We’ve got had over 60 convictions, between final yr and this yr we had over 5 convictions.
“The arrest we had on organ harvesting, the particular person concerned just isn’t an Akwa Ibomite.
So when now we have such a case, we discuss with the mom state the place the suspect comes from.
“Our personal is simply do the job and do a referral to the command that covers the particular person’s state the place justice will take its course.”
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