Police detectives at the Delta State Police Command, Asaba, have nabbed four persons including two native doctors alleged to be human parts dealers in Asaba, Issele-Azagba and its environs.
The Police Public Relations Officer in the state, PPRO, Mrs. Celestina Kalu said the police acted on a tip-off via petition forwarded to the command.
The Punch reports that the suspected human parts dealers were arrested with the hand of a man allegedly cut-off from his body by unknown persons inside boot of their vehicle on their way to the eastern part of the country.
Kalu said that security operatives were carrying out a ‘stop and search’ on the suspects when they found human hand hidden in a sack in the boot of their vehicle, adding that the suspects were currently undergoing interrogation.
She 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”.
Kalu said the leader of the gang identified as Samson (surname withheld), upon interrogation confessed that they sell to the native doctors who often lodge in a hotel behind the stadium in Asaba (name withheld).
She added that investigations revealed that the purported sale of human parts is made possible by mortuary workers and dare devil armed robbers, who in turn allegedly sold to native doctors in Ondo State and some parts of the eastern states.
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