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A former US intelligence analyst warned the UK’s National Crime Agency (NCA) to investigate the activities of a senior Nigerian politician before he trafficked a man to London in an attempt to harvest his kidney, the Guardian can reveal.

On Friday, Ike Ekweremadu was sentenced to more than nine years in prison for being the driving force in a plot to harvest a kidney for his sick daughter in the first organ trafficking conviction under the Modern Slavery Act.

Matthew Page, a Nigeria expert at the US state department’s bureau of intelligence and research from 2012 t0 2016 and now an associate fellow at the Chatham House thinktank, said the plot could have been foiled if UK authorities had acted on his warnings about Ekweremadu and a dossier of material about his activities in Britain.

He said the trafficking conspiracy showed what could happen if such documented suspicions about corruption were ignored.

“Clearly the UK authorities had ample opportunity to scrutinise Ekweremadu’s UK activities before things reached the point of people-trafficking or organ harvesting,” he said.

In research partly funded by the UK’s Department for International Development, Page examined how Nigerian politicians including Ekweremadu used unexplained wealth to buy millions of pounds’ worth of properties in the UK and fund expensive private education for their children.

He found that in a 12-year period, Ekweremadu would have made about £339,000 as a political office holder, including his stint as deputy president of the Nigerian senate. But in that period he bought three properties – two in London and one in Cambridge – worth £4.2m. The Old Bailey heard that Ekweremadu had an international property portfolio worth more than £6m

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/may/07/uk-urged-investigate-nigerian-politician-organ-trafficking-plot-ike-ekweremadu

Ok

The should investigate politicians and their children. Shey it’s a politician’s son that bought a mansion in London worth $11m? Same person that some people consider their saviour. The house was even centre of Nigeria’s biggest corruption probe.

I believe they should be investigating the mandate thief’s children for the job they are doing that gave them millions of pounds to buy properties recovered from corruption cases

He has this kind of stupendous wealth and he's just paying a paltry sum of #4.5m for a kidney. Something an ordinary person pays between #8-15m for kidney.

Greed, insensitivity and tendency for sharp practices were the karma that hunted Ekweremadu down.

Assets worth £6m only??

That is to say he's even considerate in his thievery or your a wacky investigator

You know see people like BAT, Atiku, Buharis children, and other unscrupulous legislators looting this country dry??

plaindealer:
The man built and bought over 40 mansions all over the world including in the UK, but just like many crooked and corrupt politicians, he never thought about healthcare or a kidney transplant center in his own state even after finding out per the condition of his own child.

Now, of what relevance are the mansions and the ill-gotten wealth?

I actually think he's been on the UK law enforcement radar because of unexplained wealth and as a politically exposed politician before this incident.

I knew it...

Sadly enough during the sentencing, the judge said this corrupt man logged over 400,000 pounds into his UK bank in less than 5 months.

Unfortunately for him, na inside cold hard concrete prison go be his home for 10 long years instead of his ill-gotten mansions.

I no longer fall for the scam, dividends of democracy is for political office holders and their close associates only

Na dem

Upton:
The should investigate politicians and their children. Shey it’s a politician’s son that bought a mansion in London worth $11m? Same person that some people consider their saviour. The house was even centre of Nigeria’s biggest corruption probe.

They should also jail the ones who hide money in Panama and people say he is a saviour

I trust the source that is handling the investigation, there won't be any room for bribery of whatsoever kind.

They should allow EKWE to rest in Prison small. Let see if the thief will later tell us that he wasn't jailed/his own name is diff

Hm

Well it's political

Hmmm

Ekweremadu cup was filled.

Jobless Seyi Tinubu bought property of $11m belonging to Diezani associate, he re-stole what Diezani was accused by APC of stealing.
The UK will use these allegations to get concessions in their interests from a Tinubu presidency that's why they are publishing it publicly

Let him pay for d crime he committed, his cup yaff full to the brim. Nwaobodo n ngige loading.....

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Wahala.

The new stick wey Ekweremadu throw for up don bring down the old one wey hang for up since.

Upton:
The should investigate politicians and their children. Shey it’s a politician’s son that bought a mansion in London worth $11m? Same person that some people consider their saviour. The house was even centre of Nigeria’s biggest corruption probe.

Why not just write a petition against Seyi Tinubu instead of ranting on SM that is just a waste of time

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Nice enough!

Can you all see the politicians you celebrate n congratulate up n down

May they have the wisdom to loot more oooo

Madu should have acted better

But Gbola Thiefnubuu is a bigger thief.

In Yoruba, our elders used to say "Di ulu be e don panen panen, a ka jo ni melo melo".

If you know, you know.

When I heard the kidney issue with her daughter is hereditary, I asked myself how their predecessors been managing it?

Was it that they have been.................?

You should help fill the gap if you know what I mean.

Yeye analysts..

He's been going to UK to & fro without issues until Organ Harvesting scenario... Which means, if he didn't committed the crime, he would still be a free man..

What kind of spin is this?

People should stop spinning trash.

Op