London, March 23, 2023 – A former Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu, and his wife, Beatrice, have been convicted of organ trafficking in the United Kingdom.
A jury found that Ekweremadu, 60, his wife Beatrice, 56, and their “medical middleman” Dr Obinna Obeta, 50, were guilty of a conspiracy to bring a young man to Britain to give his kidney
The jury found the senator, his wife and Obeta guilty after a six-week trial.
Their daughter Sonia, 25, wept as she was cleared of the same charge on Thursday.
They were said to have criminally conspired to bring the 21-year-old Lagos street trader to London to exploit him for his kidney, the jury found.
The victim, a 21-year-old street trader from Lagos, was brought to the UK last year to provide a kidney to Sonia in an £80,000 private transplant at the Royal Free Hospital in London. (Courtesy Punch)
