Nigerian Lawmakers Back Ekweremadu, Set To Storm London

By Oladosu Oluwagbenga

The Nigerian Lawmakers has decided to back the Enugu West Senatorial District’s senator, Ike Ekweremadu, and his wife, Beatrice, over ‘alleged organ plot’, according to Senate President Ahmad Lawan.

When discussing the results of the upper chamber’s private meeting that took place before the commencement of the plenary session on Wednesday, Lawan made this point clear.

The closed-door meeting, which began about 10:57 a.m., ended around 11:49 a.m.

According to reports, Ekweremadu and his wife helped David enter the UK so that he could give his kidney to their daughter Sonia, who has kidney failure.

On Thursday, the couple was charged with conspiring to harvest organs before the Uxbridge Magistrate Court in London.

But in a statement on Wednesday, Lawan stated that on July 1, 2022, a delegation from the committee’s foreign affairs would leave Nigeria for London in order to pay a visit to the troubled couple currently being held on suspicion of organ harvesting.

The Special Assistant (Press) to Lawan, Dr. Ezrel Tabiowo, said this in a statement captioned, “Senate delegation to visit Ekweremadu, wife in London.”

Lawan claims that the Nigerian High Commissioner to London was briefed before the decision to get involved in Ekweremadu’s arrest and incarceration.

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He added that the Senate would contact the Nigerian High Commission in London and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs over the recent detention of Senator Ike Ekweremadu by the London Metropolitan Police in the United Kingdom.

He said, “I had a personal engagement with our Nigerian High Commissioner to Britain, Alhaji Isola Sarafa, who has done so well to establish contact with our colleague, who has been able to get his team to be in the court at Uxbridge where Ekweremadu was taken to.

“The high Commission has also been able to provide some consular services that include the engagement of some lawyers who will defend our colleague.

“We commend them for giving attention to the issue at stake. Equally, the Nigeria Foreign Affairs Minister has been engaged here, so that the Ministry of Foreign Affairs takes steps to provide diplomatic support for our colleague.

“Because this issue is already in court, we have limited opportunity to discuss beyond what we have done so far.

“But I want to ensure the family of our colleague, Senator Ike Ekweremadu and Nigerians, that the Senate will continue to engage with our ministry of foreign affairs as well as our high commission in London.

“The High Commission has done so much but we still expect that it will continue to provide any other further consular services.

“We have also mandated our committee on foreign affairs to engage with the British high commission here in Nigeria, to find more details on this case, as as far as the high commission is involved.

“There will be a delegation to London to see Senator Ike Ekweremadu and his wife. A delegation from the Senate Committee on Foreign Affairs of the Senate will leave in the next two days to London for that purpose.

“I want to urge all federal government institutions that can do anything to ensure that justice prevails in this case, that they do so.”

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