The United Nations (UN) has alerted Africans about the booming black market for human organs in the Middle East and asked Africans to be wary of traffickers who disguise as employers.
The UN alert was posted on its website and was sighted by SaharaReporters. It urged Africans to beware of human body organ harvesters who pretend to be employment providers in the Middle East
The UN made it known that black marketers pay $262,000 for a kidney, around N157 million.
The document titled ‘United Nations Alert’ stated: “the black market for parts of the human body is booming in the Middle East.
“A kidney now costs 262,000 dollars (131 million CFA francs); the heart costs 119,000 dollars (60 million CFA francs) and the liver costs 157,000 dollars (79 million CFA francs).
“Beware of fake foreign agencies promising to make you work abroad. They process your papers, pay your plane ticket and just take you abroad pretending they want to find you a job, but instead, they kill their victims, and recover all the precious parts of their bodies.
“Many people have been offered jobs in the Middle East and so far their families have been unable to locate them.”
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