About four persons suspected to be human parts dealers
were arrested on Monday 4th April 2016 by police detectives attached to the
Delta State Police Command, Asaba.
Among the suspects arrested
were two native doctors who were allegedly involved in
selling human parts in Asaba, Issele-Azagba and its
environs.
According to reports, the suspects were arrested in
possession of the hand of a man allegedly cut off from his
body by unknown persons. The human part was found inside the boot of the suspects’
vehicle on their way to the eastern part of the country
The state Police Public Relations Officer, PPRO, Mrs.
Celestina Kalu, disclosed that the arrest was stirred
following a tip through a petition forwarded to the
command.
Kalu revealed that it was during the process of a stop-and-
search on the suspects that they found the human hand in
their boot in a sack of bag while some of the accomplices
fled.
She further disclosed that the suspects are currently
undergoing interrogation by the force.
Kalu said: “It is true that we arrested four persons and two
native doctors with human parts, but we are interrogating
them with the exhibit we recovered from them in the vehicle.
They were travelling to the eastern part.”
The state police spokespersons said the leader of the gang
identified as Samson interrogation, confessed that they sold
human parts to native doctors, who often lodged into a hotel
behind the stadium in Asaba.
Investigations revealed that some mortuary workers and
armed robbers allegedly supplied the parts to the dealers
who in turn sold to native doctors in Ondo State and some
parts of the eastern states.
