A wealthy senior Nigerian politician found guilty of an organ-harvesting plot in the UK has been sentenced to nine years and eight months in prison.
Ike Ekweremadu, 60, a former deputy president of the Nigerian senate, planned with his family and doctor to traffic a 21-year-old to Britain for an £80,000 kidney transplant.
The plan was to give his daughter, Sonia a kidney after disease forced her to drop out of a master’s degree in film at Newcastle University, the Old Bailey in London heard during the hearing in March.
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It is the first conviction of its kind under modern slavery laws in the United Kingdom, and he will now spend several years in prison as a result – although The Africa Report claims he has earned around £300,000 since being held in custody from June, 2022.
Ekweremadu’s wife Beatrice, 56, and medical “middleman” Dr Obinna Obeta, 50, were also found guilty of conspiring to exploit a young man from Lagos for his body part which they offered him £7,000 for, and will spend four and a half years and 10 years in prison respectively.
During the hearing earlier this year, the Ekweremadus’ daughter Sonia, 25, wept as she was cleared of the same charge.
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