Senator Ike Ekweremadu and his wife Beatrice have denied all
charges of human trafficking and organ harvesting filed against them before a
UK magistrate’s court.
The couple said they did not procure a minor in order to
abduct and harvest his organ, contradicting the charges filed by the
Metropolitan Police at Uxbridge Magistrate’s Court, London, on Thursday
afternoon.
The charges were “nothing short of preposterous,” the
Ekweremadus said through their lawyer Gavin Irwin, who added that the couple
never “arranged transport for anyone with intention to exploit them.”
Despite strongly denying the allegations, the Ekweremadus
were remanded in custody until commencement of trial on July 7.
Mr Ekweremadu has been a member of the Nigerian Senate since
2003. He was the Deputy Senate President between 2015 and 2019. He sought but
failed to clinch the PDP ticket for governorship race in his home Enugu State.
Mr Ekweremadu’s records “taken together go way beyond him
being a person of good character…rather that he has led a blameless life as a
public servant,” his lawyers added.
Antonia Gray, a lawyer to Mrs Ekweremadu, said: “She has
never been complicit or involved in any alleged illegal trafficking of any
young person.”
“She is a financial accountant with an unblemished record,”
the lawyer added.
NigerianEye had published a letter which Mr Ekweremadu
wrote to the UK High Commission seeking to procure a visa for someone named
David Ukpo.
The December 28, 2021, letter signed personally by Mr
Ekweremadu specifically said he was supporting Mr Ukpo’s visa application
because he wanted him to undergo medical examinations in the UK with the
purpose of donating a kidney to his daughter Sonia Ekweremadu.
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