The article addresses reports of kidney harvesting and organ trafficking around the Federal Capital Territory and neighbouring Nasarawa State. It states that the illicit business involves private hospitals working with networks of agents who recruit vulnerable young people, often from low-income satellite communities, to deceptively harvest or sell their kidneys. It cites a case in which a young man discovered a missing kidney after a procedure, and the arrest on August 9, 2026, of four suspects in Auta Balefi, Karu LGA, Nasarawa State, by operatives of the Nigeria Police Force's Special Tactical Squad. Police said one suspect confessed to luring a 22-year-old to a hospital in April 2026 where a kidney was harvested for about N1.7 million.
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