Tuesday, the former vice president of the Nigerian senate and his family members are scheduled to stand trial in Britain for accused organ harvesting.
Ike Ekweremadu, 60, will be tried on Tuesday morning at the Old Bailey court, together with his wife, daughter, and a doctor, for allegedly transporting a 21-year-old man from Nigeria to have his kidney removed.
Prosecutors stated that the defendants intended to extract a kidney from a 21-year-old Nigerian man in order to give it to the politician’s daughter, Sonia.
The individual reportedly raised the alarm after refusing to consent to the treatment after preliminary examinations at a hospital in north London.
The charges were filed after the man went to the police in a village outside of London, and the Ekweremadus were arrested at London’s Heathrow airport in June of last year after traveling into the United Kingdom.
A doctor in his 50s from south London, Obinna Obeta, was detained at a later period.
The trial is scheduled to begin on Tuesday at 1000 GMT. It was moved up from its originally scheduled date in May.
Ekweremadu is a senator representing the Peoples Democratic Party in the southeast Nigerian state of Enugu.
Under UK regulations on modern slavery, the Ekweremadus and the doctor are accused of conspiring to arrange the travel of another individual for the purpose of exploitation.
The alleged violation allegedly occurred between August 2021 and May 2022.
Ike Ekweremadu’s bail application was denied due to fears that he would flee the country.
Obeta, M.D., was also detained. Beatrice and Sonia Ekweremadu were granted bail with conditions.
© Agence France-Presse
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