Senator Ike Ekweremadu, his wife Dr. Beatrice and Dr. Obinna Obeta were sentenced at the UK’s Central Criminal Court, known as the Old Bailey to nine years and eight months, four years and six months, and 10 years in prison respectively.
It was the first conviction of its kind under Britain’s modern slavery laws. The three were found guilty of trafficking a 21-year-old street trader to the UK to provide a kidney for Ekweremadu's daughter Sonia, who suffers from deteriorating kidneys and needs regular dialysis.My sympathy goes to his daughter Sonia and I pray that she finds a donor soon. But I have no pity for Ekeremadu. The crimes of Ekweremadu finally caught up with him.
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