ionigeria.com Nigerian Newspaper
The case marked the first time defendants have been convicted under the Modern Slavery Act of an organ harvesting conspiracy. Though it is lawful to donate a kidney, it becomes criminal if money or another material advantage is rewarded.
A Nigerian senator, his wife and a medical “middleman” have been jailed for conspiring to traffic a market trader to the UK to harvest his kidney.
Politician Ike Ekweremadu, 60 and his wife Beatrice, 56, stood trial accused of a conspiracy to bring the man to Britain from Lagos so he could provide an organ for their 25-year-old daughter Sonia Ekweremadu.
It was alleged the 21-year-old market trader was to be rewarded for donating the organ in an £80,000 private procedure at London’s Royal Free Hospital.
The prosecution claimed the donor, who cannot be identified for legal reason, was offered up to £7,000 along with the promise of a better life in the UK.
The donor did not understand until his first appointment with a consultant at the hospital that he was there for a kidney transplant, the Old Bailey was told.
Justice has been served, May God give them the fortitude to continue in their travail while in jail. Nobody is above the law in UK