Ekweremadu, Wife In UK Police Net Over Alleged Child Organ Harvestingp

UK – The former Deputy Senate President, Mr. Ike Ekweremadu, 60, and his wife, Mrs. Nwanneka Ekweremadu, 55, are both being alleged of trafficking in child organs harvesting.

According to MailOnline, Mr. Ekweremadu, a People’s Democratic Party politician who was once Deputy President of the nation’s senate and his wife, an academic and doctor in Abuja were visiting the UK in June.

The couple who were arrested on suspicion of plotting to harvest the organs of a child in the UK will appear at Uxbridge Magistrates’ Court on Thursday, June 23, 2022.

It was scooped that the child alleged to have been trafficked for organ harvesting is now safe with the UK police.

It would be recalled that  Mr Ekweremadu has been an elected Senator at the Abuja-based parliament since 2003 after moving into politics after years as a lawyer. His wife, five years his junior, is an academic and doctor and also a major public figure in Nigeria. They are believed to have four adult children.

They are both charged with conspiracy to arrange or facilitate travel of another person with a view to exploitation, namely organ harvesting. They have been remanded in custody and will appear at Uxbridge Magistrates’ Court today.

The Metropolitan Police said the child, who is under the age of 18, at the centre of the alleged plot is in their care.

Organ harvesting involves removing parts of the body, often for cash and against the victim’s will.

Scotland Yard has not given the gender or the age of the child – or the location of the arrests. But given the suspects are appearing in court in Uxbridge, it is likely they were held at the Heathrow Airport.

Ekweremadu has been in the UK for at least the past fortnight having met with members of the Nigerian community in Britain in Lincoln around ten days ago.

It was gathered that an investigation was launched after detectives were alerted to potential offences under modern slavery legislation in May 2022, the force said.

Recall, in 2017 a former Nigerian government minister claimed that migrants from his country were having their organs harvested after being sold into slavery.

Mr. Femi Fani-Kayode, a onetime Aviation Minister in Nigeria, claimed that 75 per cent of slaves who have their organs harvested in North Africa are from his country.

The Cambridge University-educated lawyer added that the victims have their ‘bodies mutilated’ and are “roasted like suya (shish kebabs)”. He went on: ‘Roasted alive! This is what Libyans do to sub-Saharan Africans who are looking for a transit point to Europe.

“They sell them into slavery and either murder, mutilate, torture or work them to death.”

 

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Beatrice Nwanneka Ekweremadu, 55, and Ike Ekweremadu, 60, both from Nigeria , have been remanded in custody and will appear at Uxbridge Magistrates’ Court (pictured) later today.