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Ex-Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu Celebrates 61st Birthday In UK Prison

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Ike Ekweremadu, a former Deputy Senate President of the 8th Senate, spent his 61st birthday in a UK jail.

Ekweremadu celebrated his 61st birthday today, May 12, 2023.

 

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He is serving an organ trafficking sentence in prison, not being honoured by his family and friends.

A Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) chieftain named Ekweremadu was born on May 12th, 1962.

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Ekweremadu was born in Amachara Mpu, a local government area in Enugu State’s Aninri Local Government Area.

Along with his wife and Dr. Obinna Obeta, the lawmaker was sentenced to prison last week in the UK for crimes involving organ harvesting.

Recall that Ekweremadu was accused of conspiring to arrange the entry into the UK of a 21-year-old from Lagos in order to harvest organs on June 23, 2022.

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Ekweremadu, his wife, and Dr. Obeta were found guilty on March 23, 2023, of planning to take advantage of the man for his kidney.

The victim was brought to the UK in 2022 for a kidney donation in an £80,000 private transplant at the Royal Free Hospital in London, according to the prosecution’s testimony at the Old Bailey trial.

 

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Prosecutors claim that in exchange for the victim travelling to the UK, up to £7,000 and a job were offered.

The prosecution confirmed that a life sentence was the maximum possible in the organ harvesting case.

The couple’s daughter, who was exonerated of the same charge, was to receive the organ after it was removed.

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Ekweremadu was given a nine-year, eight-month prison term on May 5, 2023.

In the meantime, Obeta received a ten-year prison term, and Ekweremadu’s wife received a four-year, six-month sentence.

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