Willis Okumu, the researcher at the center of a recent Deutsche Welle (DW) exposé on kidney trafficking, has called for a review of the Kenya Health Act of 2017, to seal loopholes exploited by a suspected syndicate linked to illegal organ donations.
Okumu, a senior researcher at the Institute for Security Studies (ISS), on Tuesday said some provisions of the Act regulating organ donations are ambiguous and open to abuse by criminal networks. "The law needs to be changed to outrightly ban people from donating kidneys for money.
In Europe, where most of the recipients come from, that is illegal," said Okumu in on Spice FM. "What's happening here is an exploitation of a legal loophole.
It is upon our legislators to seal those loopholes and to enforce those laws," he added.
