Senator Ike Ekweremadu’s trial on the alleged organ harvesting has resumed today, Tuesday, January 31, in the UK.
The resumption is coming after being adjourned in November, while the arguments were listened to between December 16 and 19, 2022.
Ekweremadu, the senator representing Enugu West Senatorial District through the PDP had together with his wife, Beatrice, arrested on June 23 in London and thereafter charged with conspiracy for human trafficking and organ harvesting.
According to prosecutors, the defendants had planned to have an organ (kidney) removed from a 21-year-old Nigerian man so that it could be given to the politician’s daughter, Sonia.
Charges were filed after the man approached police in a town on the outskirts of London, and soon after, the Ekweremadus’ was apprehended in June last year at London’s Heathrow airport after flying into the country.
Obinna Obeta, a 50-year-old south London doctor and accomplice to the intended crime, was arrested at a later date.
Meanwhile, the trial began on Tuesday at 11:00 a.m. (WAT) had been moved up from its previously scheduled date in May.
Obeta, the south London doctor is still in detention but, Beatrice and Sonia Ekweremadu have been granted conditional bail.
