The United Nations (UN) has issued a warning to Africans about a thriving black market for human body organs in the Middle East, warning them to be wary of traffickers who pose as job providers.
The UN alert warned Africans to be wary of human body organ harvesters who pose as job providers in the Middle East.
It did not, however, name any of the Gulf region’s countries.
According to the UN, black marketeers pay $262,000 for a kidney, which is roughly N157 million.
The document entitled, United Nations Alert, states, “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, 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,” the UN alert read.
