The medical doctor, Noah Kekere, who was alleged to have harvested a woman’s kidney in a private hospital in Jos, the Plateau State capital was reportedly rushed to the Psychiatric Unit of Jos University Teaching Hospital (JUTH), on Saturday evening, after he exhibited symptoms of mental disorder in police cell.
Kekere was said to have been arrested on Wednesday following a report to the Nasarawa Gwon Police Division for alleged removal of the right kidney of Mrs Kehinde Kamal during an operation in 2018.
The state police command had earlier confirmed the arrest of the suspected kidney harvester.
A source at the police headquarters in Jos also confirmed to newsmen that the suspected kidney harvester was taken to the hospital when he started tearing his clothes in the cell and started behaving like a lunatic.
The source further added that “this made the police rush him to Jos University Teaching Hospital (JUTH) in handcuffs and was admitted to the psychiatric department of the hospital.”
The source further said on arrival, he was just screaming, yelling and shouting saying “they want to silence my daughter.”
Our correspondent reports that mobile police officers have taken over the Psychiatric Unit of the hospital.
The spokesperson of the state police command, DSP Alfred Alabo, when contacted didn’t respond to the enquiry by our correspondent at the time of filing this report.
