The shocker of the month was the Kenyan who tried - and almost succeeded - in selling off his albino friend to a Tanzanian witchdoctor, who needed body parts for his rituals. It eclipsed human ‘vampire’ Onyancha like an avalanche.
It is the kind of human interest story editors, readers and viewers love. But two days ago the tale of Eliud Mwangi and Paul Kariuki peddling human organs to some unidentified buyer, brought to the fore questions of ethics in the human parts trade that is a worldwide phenomenon.