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'We were sold': Frail victims accuse police of aiding kidney trafficking

Doctors during the Parliamentary Committee on Health meeting at Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital where they made the inquiry into cases involving kidney transplant in some public and private hospitals in Eldoret City Uasin Gishu County on Thursday. August 29, 2025. [Peter Ochieng, Standard]

Victims of the multi-million shilling human organ trafficking racket and unethical transplants have accused authorities of abandoning them.

They say that after falling into the trap of smooth-talking scammers, the National Police Service, whom they viewed as their only refuge, did little to protect them from the illegal syndicate.

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