Nigerian senator to face organ-harvesting charges in the UK

A 21-year-old man raised crimson flags after refusing to consent to an operation at a hospital in London.

Nigeria’s former deputy Senate president will go on trial in the UK in January for alleged organ harvesting, a decide has mentioned.

Ike Ekweremadu, 60, is accused along with his spouse, Beatrice, 56, their daughter, Sonia, 25, and a health care provider of bringing a person from Nigeria to have a kidney eliminated.

The 21-year-old man is claimed to have raised the alarm after refusing to consent to the operation following preliminary assessments on the Royal Free Hospital in London.

The BBC reported that the Ekweremadu household allegedly handled the person like a slave earlier than he ran away and went to Staines police station in Surrey.

Ekweremadu is a senator for the opposition Peoples Democratic Social gathering for Enugu State in southeast Nigeria.

Ekweremadu and his household had been arrested at London’s Heathrow Airport in June.

The household and the physician, Obina Obeta, 50, are accused of conspiracy to rearrange the journey of one other individual with a view of exploitation.

Prosecutors say the kidney was meant for Sonia.

The alleged offence is believed to have taken place between August 1 final 12 months and Could 5 this 12 months.

No pleas had been entered when the defendants appeared at London’s Central Legal Courtroom on Monday.

Ekweremadu and Obeta had been remanded into custody whereas Beatrice and Sonia had been launched on conditional bail.

Choose Mark Lucraft set one other listening to date for December 16 and introduced ahead the defendants’ trial from Could to January 31.