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Ike Ekweremadu, Wife, Doctor Sentenced To Jail In UK 

Ike Ekweremadu, Wife, Doctor Sentenced To Jail In UK
Ike Ekweremadu, a former deputy president of the Nigerian senate, was sentenced to a nine-year, eight-month jail term in the United Kingdom.
The 60-year-old Nigerian senator, his wife, and a medical doctor, Obinna Obeta were found guilty of conspiring to bring a market trader in Lagos to the UK for the purpose of harvesting his kidney for the use of the politician’s 25-year-old daughter, Sonia.
Beatrice, Ekweremadu’s 56-year-old wife, received a sentence of four years and six months in jail, while the doctor convicted of participating in the trafficking of human organs received a ten-year sentence and had his medical licence suspended.
At a sentencing hearing on Friday, Justice Jeremy Johnson told the defendants: “In each of your cases the offence you committed is so serious that neither a fine nor a community sentence can be justified.
“People-trafficking of human organs is a form of slavery.
“It treats human beings and their body parts as commodities to be bought and sold.
“It is a trade that preys on poverty, misery and desperation.”
The Ekweremadu’s case marked the first time defendants have been convicted under the Modern Slavery Act for organ harvesting.
Recall that in June 2022, the London Metropolitan Police detained Ekweremadu and his family and that they were subsequently charged in court for plotting to lure the victim to London so that they could take advantage of him for his kidney.
Ekweremadu and his wife expressed regret for saying the donor was a relative throughout the trial.
Hugh Davies, the prosecutor, told the court the Ekweremadus and Obeta had treated the man and other potential donors as “disposable assets – spare parts for reward”.
They were found guilty in March 2023 and sentenced on May 5, 2023.
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