Police detectives attached to the Delta
State Police Command, Asaba, have arrested four persons, including two
native doctors over alleged human parts sale in Asaba, Issele-Azagba and
its environs.
The arrest of the suspects last Monday,
the command’s image maker in the state, Mrs. Celestina Kalu, said, was
made possible when the security operatives acted on a tip-off via a
petition forwarded to the command.
The human part was found inside the boot of the suspects’ vehicle on their way to the eastern part of the country
But the State Police PRO, (Kalu) said
security operatives were on a stop-and-search on the suspects when they
found the human hand in their boot in a sack of bag, adding that the
suspects were currently undergoing interrogation.
Explaining that other suspects within
the area fled on sighting the police, 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 (surname withheld), upon
interrogation, confessed that they sold human parts to native doctors,
who often lodged into a hotel behind the stadium in Asaba (name
withheld).
She said investigations had revealed
that the alleged sale of human parts were made possible with 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.
Meanwhile, an Ogwashi-Uku-based
journalist, Innocent Osakwe, was last Thursday attacked by a gang of
suspected armed robbers, who reportedly made away with N250,000 and his
property.
Osakwe told Southern City News that the
robbers came into his house in the community in the wee hours and at
gun point, ordered him to surrender his money and property.
0 on: "Police arrest four suspected human parts dealers in Delta"