BREAKING NEWS: Senator Ekwerenmadu, Wife and Doctor, jailed for Organ Trafficking.

By Mary Ojiji.

Former Nigerian Senator, Ike Ekweremadu, his wife Beatrice, and their doctor, Obinna Obeta, have been found culpable of violating the Modern Slavery Act.

The court found them guilty of facilitating the travel of a young man to Britain with a view to his exploitation after a six-week trial at the Old Bailey.

It was said that they criminally conspired to bring the 21-year-old Lagos street trader to London to exploit him for his kidney, the jury found.

The court heard that the organ donor had been offered an illegal reward to become a donor for the senator’s daughter after kidney disease forced her to drop out of a master’s degree program in film at Newcastle University.

Senator Ekweremadu was sentenced to nine (9) years and eight months in prison, his wife, Beatrice, was sentenced to four (4) years and six months of imprisonment Dr. Obeta received a ten-year prison sentence.

Justice Johnson told the defendants: “In each of your cases, the offence you committed is so serious that neither a fine nor a community sentence can be justified.”The case marked the first time defendants have been convicted under the Modern Slavery Act of an organ harvesting conspiracy.