More facts have continued to trail the circumstances surrounding the arrest and detention of former Deputy Senate President, Senator Ike Eweremadu and his wife, Beatrice in UK over an alleged conspiracy to harvest the organ of a minor.
On Thursday, June 23, the London metropolitan police said they were charging both Ekweremadu and his wife to court following an investigation by the police’s specialist crime team which was launched after detectives were alerted to potential offences under modern slavery legislation in May 2022.
Ekweremadu and his wife were subsequently remanded in custody until July 7 pending further investigation.
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How donor purportedly lied to UK Police
Ekweremadu’s daughter, Sonia reportedly had a kidney-related problem and had been undergoing dialysis, and needed a kidney transplant.
A willing donor was however found by the family in Nigeria whose name was given as Ukpo Nwamini David and travel documents were secured for him that enabled him to travel to the UK.
According to sources, “Ukpo has been staying in Britain since February and was being well taken care of as various photographs he took while in the UK and posted on his Facebook page indicated.
“Some of the photographs included the ones he took with his girlfriend, who posted on her Facebook page, Princess David, that she was “in a relationship with ‘Un Stoppable’.
“Before the kidney transplant was to be done, however, the surgeons at the Royal Free Hospital London discovered that Ukpo’s kidney could not match Sonia’s.
“So, the operation could not be performed.”
The sources further revealed that “Ukpo was therefore expected to return to Nigeria in May and that was when the trouble started.
“He didn’t want to return to Nigeria and believed he could secure asylum in the UK.”
Ukpo, sources said, then “told the police that he was a minor, aged 15 years.”
According to Vanguard, he also told the police that he was deceived he would be given a better life in the UK, unknown to him that the plan was to harvest his organ and that he was being forced back to Nigeria.
Facts that emerged have now exposed some discrepancies in the claims.
In his international passport, issued on November 4, 2021, with the name David Ukpo Nwamini, his date of birth was given as October 12, 2000, which confirmed that he is actually 21 years old and not 15 as he told the London Police.
The same date of birth was recorded for him while registering for the National Identification Number on June 15, 2021, with his NIN given as 19438******, Vanguard’s report further revealed.
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