UK court sentences Ekweremadu, wife today
Ike Ekweremadu, a former vice president of the Nigerian senate, his wife Beatrice, and their middleman doctor, Obinna Obeta, were found guilty of trafficking human organs in March. Their conviction was the first of its type under the Modern Slavery Act, and today they will all be sentenced.
Obeta, 51, Ekweremadu, 60, and his wife Beatrice, 56, were found guilty of conspiring to organize the journey of a young man named David Nwamini to Britain in order to take advantage of him for a kidney that the lawmaker's ailing daughter Sonia needed.
The Ekweremadus and their doctor may have to deal with the unpleasant reality of a potential 10-year prison sentence after a six-week trial and conviction at the Old Bailey, London's Central Criminal Court. They did this by breaking the Modern Slavery Act. a judge. Judge Jeremy Johnson will impose the punishment.
Remember how the prosecutor, Hugh Davies KC, claimed in court that Ekweremadus and Obeta had treated the guy and other potential contributors as "disposable assets - spare parts for reward"? He claimed that they had an "emotionally cold commercial transaction" with the man.
Nigeria Senate, House of Representatives, and Nigerians in the Diaspora Commission (NIDCOM) wrote letters to British authorities in recent days pleading for mercy for the troubled congressman. Before this, Olusegun Obasanjo, the former president of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, wrote to the British authorities to make a case for the legislator.
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