The would-be kidney donor, David Nwamini, who is in the organ trafficking case that sent Senator Ike Ekweremadu, 60, to jail, has appealed to UK government to remain and work in the UK, saying “they could arrest me or kill me in Nigeria”. This was contained in his impact statement, which was read in court,…
Sonia Ekweremadu, the daughter of convicted former Nigerian deputy senate president, Ike Ekweremadu, on Friday during an interview with BBC said that she feels guilty that her parents were jailed in an efforts to proffer solution to her health challenge, while questioning the judgement, describing it as bias. The Informant247 had reported that in March…
A Court in London has sentenced the former deputy senate president Ike Ekweremadu to nine years and eight months imprisonment for organ trafficking. The fate of the Nigeria’s lawmaker was decided on Friday May 5th at the Central Criminal Court, Old Bailey, United Kingdom. A foreign news medium, BBC reported that the court sentenced the…
Nigeria Senate on Wednesday pleaded with the United Kingdom authorities to grant former Deputy Senate president Ike Ekweremadu clemency over his case. The Informant247 gathered that Ekweremadu and his wife, Beatrice await sentencing after they were convicted by a UK court over organ harvesting case in the country. The Informant247 had reported that the Economics…
The Nigeria’s House of Representatives has appealed to the authority of United Kingdom UK and its parliament, seeking their intervention in the sentencing of the former deputy Senate President Ike Ekweremadu and his wife, Beatrice. The Nigeria’s legislators want the UK court to be linient with the lawmaker, asking it to “temper justice and mercy”…
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has appealed to the United Kingdom UK to be lenient with the former Deputy Senate President Ike Ekweremadu over the case of organ trafficking. The Informant247 earlier reported that the United Kingdom, UK court has found Ekweremadu guilty of organ trafficking. The court also found his wife Beatrice, daughter Sonia and…
A United Kingdom court on Thursday, found former Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu, and his wife, Beatrice, guilty of organ trafficking. The Informant247 gathered the couple were found guilty alongside a medical doctor, Dr. Obinna Obeta. They were convicted for facilitating the travel of a young man to Britain with a view to his exploitation…
The United Kingdom, UK court has found the former deputy senate president, Ike Ekweremadu guilty of organ trafficking. The court also found his wife Beatrice, daughter Sonia and a doctor, Obinna Obeta, guilty. The jury held that they collaborated efforts to travel with the victim to London to exploit him of his organ (kidney). The UK…
Sonia, the daughter of deputy senate president, Senator Ike Ekweremadu, has denied the allegations of trafficking a homeless man for the purpose of kidney harvesting. The 25-year-old Senator’s daughter made this denial while on bail with her mother in a UK court. It was reported that Sonia with her parents, Ike and Beatrice Ekweremadu, and…
The former Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu has on Thursday told the Federal High Court in Abuja that the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) is responsible for his travails at the London court where he is in detention. The Senator who has been in custody in London over an alleged organ harvesting scandal said…
Ossai Success, an aide to the Governor of Delta State, Ifeanyi Okowa, has said that Sonia Ekweremadu, the daughter of former Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu, deserves free kidney donations from Nigerian people. Success has recalled that the former deputy senate president played a role in growing the country; and for that reason, citizens should…
Sonia, the daughter of the Nigeria’s former Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu, has publicly appealed for kidney donation. The daughter of the lawmaker made the appeal amid the ordeal of her parents who encountered problem while trying to save her. The federal legislator and his wife were apprehended in June when they attempted to get…
Former Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu may continue to be in detention of the United Kingdom, UK authority over the alleged case of organ harvesting. The Informant247 had reported that the Central Criminal Court in the United Kingdom, UK has adjourned the matter to October 31, 2022. The Informant247 reports that the Nigerian lawmaker and…
A United Kingdom, UK, court has granted former Nigerian Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu’s wife, Beatrice bail. Ekweremadu and his wife were accused of trafficking a young Nigerian to the UK for the purpose of harvesting his kidney. They were accused of plotting to traffic the 21-year-old to transplant his organs to their daughter who…
The trial of Ike Ekweremadu and his wife, Beatrice, has been adjourned till August 4, 2022. The couple were tried at Westminster Magistrate’s Court over alleged organ harvesting on Thursday. Gavin Irwin was the counsel who represented Ekweremadu, while Szilvia Booker represented the wife. A high-powered Nigerian delegation was in court for the trial of…
Former Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu, and his wife, Beatrice, have sued the National Identity Management Commission (NIMC) and others over controversy surrounding David Ukpo’s real age. Others mentioned in the suit are the Comptroller General (C-G), Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS); Stanbic-IBTC Bank; United Bank of Africa (UBA) and Nigeria Inter-Bank Settlement System Plc as…
The Comptroller General of Nigeria Immigration Service, Isah Idris, has confirmed that Mr Ukpo Nwamini David, the person at the heart of the alleged organ harvesting involving former Deputy President of the Senate, Senator Ike Ekweremadu and his wife, is not 15-year -old but 22 years -old. This came on a day a lady who…
The former Deputy Senate President, Dr. Ike Ekweremadu and his wife, Beatrice, are currently in custody of the Specialist Crime Team of the Metropolitan Police in London. The Informant247 learnt that the former second in command in the Nigerian Senate and his wife were arrested and detained for alleged conspiracy to harvest the organs of…
The senator representing Enugu West and former Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu, on Saturday, said that the South-East needed an extra state because the region was shortchanged. He said that an extra state would enable the South-East to “match with the rest of the country in terms of opportunities and National Assembly.” While speaking during…
