Nigerian politician jailed in UK for organ-trafficking plot
Nigerian former senator Ike Ekweremadu and his wife are jailed for bringing a man to the UK to provide a kidney for their daughter.
A former deputy president of the Nigerian senate, Ike Ekweremadu, has been given a nine-year jail term and his wife four-and-a-half years for conspiring to bring a 21-year-old Lagos street trader to the UK as a potential kidney donor for their sick daughter. A doctor who was also part of the plot received 10 years.
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(Photo: Former Nigerian senator Ike Ekweremadu. Image from Met Police)
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