NAPTIP Arrests Suspected Organ Harvester In Akwa Ibom
National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons, has arrested one suspected organ harvester in Akwa Ibom State.
It was gathered that the State Zonal Coordinator of NAPTIP, Emmanuel Awhen made the disclosure during a press briefing in Uyo on Saturday to mark the 2025 National Human Trafficking Awareness Day.
Awhen noted that the suspect, who is not an indigen of Akwa Ibom, has been referred back to his state for further legal process.
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NAPTIP added that its has secured the arrest of over 60 conviction with over 15 cases still pending determination in federal courts in the state.
Awhen said: “We have had arrests, I cannot count, the arrests that we do, we bring them to the office and when we realize that most of these cases are not really human trafficking cases, we send them away.
“The ones that are arrested and put in our centres and charged to court are many. We have had over 60 convictions, between last year and this year we had over 5 convictions.
“The arrest we had on organ harvesting, the person involved is not an Akwa Ibomite. So when we have such a case, we refer such to the mother state where the suspect comes from.
“Our own is just do the job and do a referral to the command that covers the person’s state where justice will take it course.”
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