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Nigerian police arrest four suspects over alleged organ harvesting

Photo: France 24

What happened

In Nigeria, the police have arrested four suspects over alleged organ harvesting. Two of the suspects are medical doctors who are accused of carrying out the surgeries to harvest the kidneys. The victims are mainly vulnerable and uneducated youths whose financial desperation is exploited to illegally harvest their kidney for transplant to patients who are often wealthy, as FRANCE 24’s Sam Olukoya reports.

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