The Magistrate’s court located at the Jos Metropolitan Development Board (JMDB) has revoked the bail earlier granted to a suspected organ harvester, Dr Noah Kekere last Tuesday.
 
The bail earlier granted him had raised eyebrows, more so that both the police and the Plateau State Ministry of Justice (the prosecuting bodies) all confirmed that they had no prior knowledge that the matter was slated for that Tuesday, and therefore, were not in court.
 
Kekere, who operates a clinic in Jos metropolis called Murna and Maternity was arrested by the police for allegedly harvesting the kidney of one Mrs Kehinde Kamal in 2018 when she visited his hospital for an operation that had nothing to do with kidney.
 
It was said that it took Mrs Kamal almost five year and an eventual visit to Jos University Teaching Hospital (JUTH) after frequent visits to Kekere’s Clinic to realise that her organ had been harvested.
 
After his arrest and being in their custody for some time, the police completed the court process and handed over the suspect to the Ministry of Justice for prosecution after investigation.
 
Consequently, Kekere was remanded in prison custody.
Findings revealed that an application for bail of the suspect was filed at Plateau State High Court of Justice by the defence counsel and service was attempted on the police, but the court bailiff was told that the case file had been transferred to the Ministry of Justice.
 
Instead of serving the ministry with the process, the bailiff was said to have not, despite the fact that he recorded it in the file the exact information he got from the police with regard to the transfer of the suspect to the ministry of justice.
 
It is for this reason that the Magistrate was faulted for granting bail to the suspect despite the fact that the case file contained all the processes. No date has been fixed for mentioning of the case.