UPDATE: Organ trafficking: UK court sentences Ekweremadu to 10 years imprisonment
Ike Ekweremadu, a former deputy president of the Nigerian senate, was given a nine years and eight months prison sentence for a plan to traffic in organs by a court in the United Kingdom.
The court also gave his wife, Beatrice, a four-year, six-month sentence. Dr. Obinna Obeta, the doctor who served as a “middleman” in the scheme, received a ten-year sentence and had his medical license suspended.
The jury decided that they had criminally colluded to transport a 21-year-old street trader from Lagos to London in order to take advantage of him for his kidney, according to Newscrescent in March 2023.
The young man allegedly pretended to be Sonia’s cousin in an unsuccessful attempt to get doctors to perform a $80,000 private operation at the Royal Free Hospital.
After kidney disease prompted Sonia to withdraw from a master’s degree in film at Newcastle University, the young man was allegedly given an unlawful reward to donate his organs for Sonia.
The Modern Slavery Act’s first conviction of its sort resulted in their conviction.
More Details to come…
