Former Deputy Senate President of Nigeria, Ike Ekweremadu, has been sentenced to nine years and eight months in prison by a UK court for his involvement in an organ trafficking plot. His wife, Beatrice, was also sentenced to four years and six months, while Dr. Obinna Obeta, who acted as their medical middleman, received a 10-year sentence and had his medical license suspended.
The three were found guilty of conspiring to exploit a 21-year-old man from Lagos by convincing him to provide his kidney for a private transplant in the UK. This marks the first conviction under the UK’s Modern Slavery Act 2015 for such a crime.
