Organ Trafficking: UK court sentences Ike Ekweremadu over 9yrs jail term

Organ Trafficking: UK court sentences Ike Ekweremadu over 9yrs jail term

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British court has today sentenced  former deputy senate president, Ike Ekweremadu to nine years, eight months imprisonment for plotting to harvest a man’s kidney for his sick daughter.

His wife Beatrice was handed four years, six months sentence.

The medical doctor, Dr. Obinna Obeta

got a 10 years sentence for the same offence.

The trio were in March convicted for traffic a young Nigerian, David Ukpo, to the United Kingdom, for the purpose of harvesting his kidney for Sonia, Ekweremadu’s sick daughter.

They were sentenced at London’s Central Criminal Court, Old Bailey under the Modern Slavery Act.

British journalist Chris Summers shared the news via his Twitter handle Friday afternoon.