Nigerian senator Ekweremadu, wife found guilty of organ harvesting in UK | The Guardian Nigeria News - Nigeria and World News

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A Nigerian senator Ike Ekweremadu and his wife Beatrice have been convicted of organ trafficking in the United Kingdom. Ekweremadu, a former Nigerian deputy Senate president with his wife, and their doctor Obinna Obeta was found culpable of violating the Modern Slavery Act. The court found the trio guilty of facilitating the travel of a […]

They criminally conspired to bring the 21-year-old Lagos street trader to London to exploit him for his kidney, the jury found.The organ donor had been offered an illegal reward to become a donor for the senator’s daughter after kidney disease forced her to drop out of a master’s degree in film at Newcastle University, the court heard.

For a fee, a medical secretary at the hospital acted as an Igbo translator between the man and the doctors to help try to convince them he was an altruistic donor, the court heard. He said Ekweremadu “agreed to reward someone for a kidney for his daughter – somebody in circumstances of poverty and from whom he distanced himself and made no inquiries, and with whom, for his own political protection, he wanted no direct contact”.

 

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If it were in Nigeria u won't here anything in the first place.

BAT next 🤧🤧

Na wa oooo… After all the money una dey make as Senators 🙄🙄

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Ekweremadu: Jurors keep everyone waiting | The Guardian Nigeria News - Nigeria and World NewsJurors at the nearly completed Old Bailey “conspiracy to facilitate and arrange travel with the aim of exploitation trial” of former Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu, Beatrice, his wife, Sonia, their daughter and Dr Obinna Obeta.... Dude is going to jail. 🇬🇧 is not 🇳🇬. Justice is not a man-knows-man affair here. This should be a big lesson to our political leaders. As deputy senate president, if he had been committed to service, this transplant would have been done here in Jos. Actually, I believe he his not guilty to some extent just that he followed wrong procedure Basically the guy play along and change the game when he got to Overseas. I believe if survey is been conduct here in Nigeria of today that A senator need kidney transplant and ready
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