Former Deputy Senate President of Nigeria, Ike Ekweremadu, has been sentenced to 10 years and 6 months in jail by a UK court for organ trafficking.
His wife, Beatrice, was also handed a four-year and six-month sentence, while medical doctor Obinna Obeta received a 10-year sentence for the same offense.
The trio was found guilty of conspiring to arrange the travel of a young Nigerian man to Britain to exploit him for his kidney. Ekweremadu’s sick daughter, Sonia, needed the organ.
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The trial lasted for six weeks, and the conviction at London’s Central Criminal Court, Old Bailey, under the Modern Slavery Act was announced on Friday. The prosecutor, Hugh Davies, described Ekweremadu’s behavior as showing “entitlement, dishonesty and hypocrisy.”
