As a UK court schedules an organ harvesting hearing for July 7, Ekweremadu and his wife will remain in detention. - TrendyNewsReporters As a UK court schedules an organ harvesting hearing for July 7, Ekweremadu and his wife will remain in detention. - TrendyNewsReporters
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As a UK court schedules an organ harvesting hearing for July 7, Ekweremadu and his wife will remain in detention.

by Ebor Cletus Ralph Jr

A former Senate deputy president, Ike Ekweremadu and his wife, Beatrice are to still remain in custody of the British government, as the Oxbridge Magistrate Court on Thursday adjourned hearing in the case of alleged human trafficking against them to July 7, 2022.

The pair, who had made an appearance for an appeal, were ordered last week to remain in prison custody after it was claimed that they had planned to smuggle David Ukpo, a minor, into the UK with the intention of convincing him to give a kidney to the senator’s daughter.
At the initial hearing, the prosecutor had informed the court that the politician had transported a 15-year-old boy from Nigeria to the UK under the pretence of giving him a better life, while in reality they were going to use his organs to treat their daughter’s renal illness.

The Nigerian Immigration Service publicly stated that the boy in question was 21 and not 15 as claimed, and the Nigerian Senate weighed in on the situation by deciding to send a delegation to meet with the Nigerian Consular in London, the Ekweremadus couple decided to appeal the court’s decision to deny them bail.

The London court once again denied them bail and once again ordered that they should remain in detention until the hearing date of July 7, therefore the appeal was unsuccessful.

The Senate announced on Wednesday during plenary that the Senate Committee on Foreign Affairs would send a high-powered delegation to the UK to meet with Ekweremadu and his wife as well as the Nigerian High Commissioner to the UK, Alhaji Isola Sarafa, and coordinate with the Consular to assist the Senator who is in legal trouble.

“There will be a delegation to London to see Senator Ike Ekweremadu and his wife. A delegation from the Senate Committee on Foreign Affairs of the Senate will leave in the next two days for London for that purpose,” Senate President Ahmed Lawan had said after a closed-door session of the lawmakers in Abuja.

“I want to urge all federal government institutions that can do anything to ensure that justice prevails in this case, that they do so.

“I had a personal engagement with our Nigerian High Commissioner to Britain, Alhaji Isola Sarafa, who has done so well to establish contact with our colleague, who has been able to get his team to be in the court at Uxbridge where Ekweremadu was taken to.

“The high Commission has also been able to provide some consular services that include the engagement of some lawyers who will defend our colleague.

“But I want to ensure the family of our colleague, Senator Ike Ekweremadu, and Nigerians, that the Senate will continue to engage with our ministry of Foreign Affairs as well as our High Commission in London. The High Commission has done so much but we still expect that it will continue to provide any other further consular services,” Lawan added.

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