Lagos – November 23, 2025 – The United Kingdom has rejected Nigeria’s request to transfer former Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu, to Nigeria to complete his prison term.
According to The Guardian, a source in Ministry of Justice in U.K, said the request was rejected over concerns that Nigeria could not guarantee Ekweremadu would continue serving his sentence after return.
The UK government, according to the report, said it could not comment on specific prisoners, but stressed that any transfer “is at our discretion following a careful assessment of whether it would be in the interests of justice.”
Another source in U.K. also told the paper that “the UK will not tolerate modern slavery and any offender will face the full force of UK law.”
Ekweremadu is serving a jail term in UK since 2023 for planning to harvest kidney from a young Nigerian.
He was jailed for nine years and eight months after his conviction by a London court.
