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Alleged Organ Harvesting: Ekweremadu Returns To Court After 42 Days In Detention (24068 Views)

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Fira09(m): 9:14am On Aug 04, 2022
The trial preparation hearing is scheduled to take place on 4th August (tomorrow) and a subsequent trial next year.

The trial of the former Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu, who has been in detention in the UK for the past 42 days, will continue Thursday.

Mr Ekweremadu and his wife, Beatrice Ekweremadu, were on 23 June arrested in the UK by London Met Police and charged with conspiracy to traffic a child to the United Kingdom in order to harvest organs.

According to the prosecutors, the couple has a daughter who has a kidney-related disease and has been on dialysis for quite some time. They added that they believe the plan was to use an organ from the boy on their daughter who needs a kidney transplant.

In a turn of events, David Nwamini (alleged victim of trafficking) told doctors he was 15 and was coerced by the Ekweremadus into donating his kidney.

However, the Nigerian government said all its records show that Mr Nwamini was not a minor and was 21 years old.

The Westminster Magistrate Court in the United Kingdom later ruled that he is not a minor.

The Ekweremadus are facing charges of conspiring to traffick a person for organ harvesting in violation of the Modern Slavery Act 2015.

The case was transferred to Central Criminal Court in London popularly known as Old Bailey where Mrs Ekweremadu was granted bail on stringent conditions. But the senator was denied bail because he was said to be a flight risk.

The trial preparation hearing is scheduled to take place on Thursday and a subsequent trial next year.

Obinna Obeta, a Nigerian doctor practising in the UK, has been charged with plotting with the Ekweremadus to traffic a man into the UK to harvest a kidney for their daughter.

Mr Obeta appeared before Bexley Magistrates’ court on 13 July and is charged under the Modern Slavery Act with arranging the travel of a 21-year-old man between August 2021 and May 2022 to exploit him.

https://www.timesng.com/news/top-news/546681-alleged-organ-harvesting-ekweremadu-returns-to-court-after-42-days-in-detention.html

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Xscape1993(m): 9:14am On Aug 04, 2022
What a big shame! A Senator of FRN. What have we done wrong in this country?

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ThrownBack: 9:15am On Aug 04, 2022
Ekweremadu was part of the Nigerian government that failed to build good hospitals, instead hoping to enrich himself and save his own children while we die here.

Peter Obi for you
Peter Obi for me
Peter Obi and Yusuf Baba Datti Ahmed for everyone.
vote Peter Obi for a better tomorrow.

Vote for Labour Party

God bless you

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5iine: 9:18am On Aug 04, 2022
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Blaze14k: 9:18am On Aug 04, 2022
Hahahaha serves him right. I hope they find him guilty

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Jahblessings888(m): 9:18am On Aug 04, 2022
Ok

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havenz(m): 9:18am On Aug 04, 2022
Build well standard and equip hospital in Nigeria our politicians will not hear they will rather steal wealth of the nation.
May God see him through.

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PortHarcourtcit(m): 9:18am On Aug 04, 2022
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shox: 9:18am On Aug 04, 2022
He don chop life na. Make he suffer small sef

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Viraltrends123: 9:19am On Aug 04, 2022
ThrownBack:
Ekweremadu was part of the Nigerian government that failed to build good hospitals, instead hoping to enrich himself and save his own children while we due here.

Peter Obi for you
Peter Obi for me
Peter Obi and Yusuf Baba Datti Ahmed for everyone.
vote Peter Obi for a better tomorrow.

Vote for Labour Party

God bless you
Ekweremadu is far better than Peter Obi. Peter Obi did nothing in Anambra state in a whole 7 years, and that's why his only achievement is he has one watch, 2 shoes and one house in Onitsha, blatant liar, they will say it because they know what Nigerians want to hear, ask him what he did to Anambra people, he will tell you he didn't spend Anambra money, he left them in bank, while people were starving and dying on bad roads.

Nigerians never disappoint, they fall for all these tricks, how Buhari also played a simple life, northerners will kill you if you publicly insult him then, one even drank gutter water for him, he was like I don't need salary as a president, I have just one house, I need just 4 years etc.

Only in Nigeria a governor will fail woefully, and people will still be fighting for them, Obi is going nowhere, after all una noise, in osun Obi got 2k votes, while APC and PDP got 375k and 400k respectively, in Ekiti Obi got 3k, while APC won, in Ebonyi, he couldn't even get one local government. Why, people are getting wiser, the youth are tired of theories, any governor that didn't do well will not move forward as a politician, we are voting the candidate with the best state in of infrastructure, security, investment, HDI, revenue generation.

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doggedfighter(f): 9:19am On Aug 04, 2022
If not because Nigerian politicians are greedy and selfish who know only themselves and theirs.



This one wouldn't have been suffering this embarrassment.


The monsters they made.

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Kelvin2022(m): 9:19am On Aug 04, 2022
Useless man God punish you and your family

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Temptee101(m): 9:19am On Aug 04, 2022
shocked

No peace for the wicked.

After turning Nigeria to hell, he ran to a country developed by people like him for a better healthcare

He must be jailed, that is the only thing that will bring succour to the suffering Nigerians

Vote Peter Obi

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New007: 9:19am On Aug 04, 2022
See system wey dey work abeg!

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ecolime(m): 9:19am On Aug 04, 2022
shox:
He don chop life na. Make he suffer small sef

cry

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NotoriousBiggyS: 9:19am On Aug 04, 2022
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ogoloray(m): 9:20am On Aug 04, 2022
Fsv

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iCauseTrouble: 9:20am On Aug 04, 2022
May God see him through

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MuslimIgbo: 9:20am On Aug 04, 2022
Good.

Let him cool off small there


USELESS man.

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foolotu: 9:20am On Aug 04, 2022
42 days don reach now now.... May God see you through...

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Tribal: 9:20am On Aug 04, 2022
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girlygirlyMain: 9:20am On Aug 04, 2022
Lets see how this goes...
I really want to hear how much he planned to pay the guy for his kidney...
An amount that should cover his medication for the rest of his life.

People who donate organs must be on certain medication for life to make up for the absence of an organ.

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Deivid10(m): 9:20am On Aug 04, 2022
I wish him what he wish for this country.

Thank God for the justice system of sane climes.... I have no doubt that justice would be served.

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Dynamicbliss: 9:20am On Aug 04, 2022
Interesting

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Evergreen4(m): 9:20am On Aug 04, 2022
Baba don see wetin . Initially, they thought it was Nigeria where they can always have their way. They thought that sending delegation to England will make British government soft pedal. You don't try sh!t when there's a working government in place

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Bagu1(m): 9:21am On Aug 04, 2022
This UK government is really holding this man's balls grin


angry grin

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halaqasa: 9:21am On Aug 04, 2022
E Go Be

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Padipadi: 9:21am On Aug 04, 2022
Hm

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Lovenorth: 9:21am On Aug 04, 2022
He should be seriously dealt with

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Fabulouslouie(m): 9:21am On Aug 04, 2022
They should give him the appropriate if he's found guilty.

Justice must prevail

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tfelicityk(m): 9:21am On Aug 04, 2022
God please have mercy on this man. Forgive him of his sin unknowingly and knowingly.

I hope the daughter had gotten her kidney replaced already?

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