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Nigerian senator guilty of human trafficking

Nigerian senator guilty of human trafficking

WILLIAM JAMES A wealthy Nigerian politician and his wife were convicted of trafficking a street trader from Lagos to Britain to illegally harvest his kidney for a transplant for their seriously-ill daughter. Prosecutors said Ike Ekweremadu, 60, and his wife Beatrice, 56, had brought the man to London in February last year with the offer of a few thousand dollars for his organ and the promise of work in Britain. Ekweremadu, an opposition senator in the southern Nigerian state of Enugu and also a former deputy senate president, and his wife were significant figures in Nigerian society with power, influence,…
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Nigerian senator and family on trial in UK over organ harvesting plot

Nigerian senator and family on trial in UK over organ harvesting plot

MICHAEL HOLDEN A wealthy Nigerian politician and his family plotted to bring a street trader from Nigeria to Britain and pay him a few thousand pounds to donate his kidney for a transplant for his ill daughter, a British prosecutor told a London court. Ike Ekweremadu, 60, his wife Beatrice, 55, daughter Sonia, 25, and Nigerian doctor Obinna Obeta, 50, who is accused of acting as a middleman, all deny a charge of conspiracy to arrange travel of another person with a view to exploitation between August 2021 and May 2022. Prosecutor Hugh Davies said Ekweremadu, an opposition senator in…
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