According to UK modern slavery law, the Ekweremadus and the doctor are accused of conspiring to set up another person’s travel with the intention of exploitation.
Ike Ekweremadu, a former deputy senate president, and family members are scheduled to go on trial in Britain for suspected organ harvesting on Tuesday.
Ekweremadu, 60, will go on trial at the Old Bailey court on Tuesday morning. He is charged with bringing a 21-year-old man from Nigeria to have his kidney removed together with his wife, daughter, and a doctor.
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The prosecution says that the defendants planned to have a 21-year-old Nigerian man’s kidney taken out so that the politician’s daughter, Sonia, could get it.
After preliminary tests at a hospital in north London, the man didn’t agree to the treatment, so he called the police, so the story goes.
Following the man’s report to the police in a village outside of London, charges were filed, and the Ekweremadus were apprehended in June last year at London’s Heathrow airport after arriving in the country.
Obinna Obeta, a 50-year-old doctor from south London, was the second man to be detained.
The trial is scheduled to begin on Tuesday at 11:00 a.m. (WAT). It was moved up from the originally scheduled May date.
Ekweremadu represents the southeast Nigerian state of Enugu as a senator for the opposition People’s Democratic Party.
According to UK modern slavery law, the Ekweremadus and the doctor are accused of conspiring to set up another person’s travel with the intention of exploitation.
It is claimed that the alleged offense occurred between August 2021 and May 2022.
Ike Ekweremadu’s request for bail was turned down because people were afraid he would leave Britain.
Obeta, a doctor, was also held. Conditional bail allowed the release of Beatrice and Sonia Ekweremadu.
