The former deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu, along with his wife, Beatrice, were today charged of been guilty of the offence of organ trafficking in the United Kingdom.

The couple with Dr. Obinna Obeta, a medical doctor were today, 23rd March, 2023 charged guilty of arranging for the transportation of a young Nigerian man to Britain with a six weeks trial and all necessary test at the Old Bailey, UK.

Ike Ekweremadu criminally charged of luring to bring the 21-year-old Lagos street trader to London to exploit him for his kidney, the jury found on Thursday.

Justice Jeremy Johnson, who is the presiding judge over the case is set pass a sentence on a future date as reported by The Guardian UK.

Ekweremadu, Beatrice, their daughter, Sonia, and Obeta had been standing trial at the Old Bailey for organ trafficking. The conviction today was the first verdict of its kind under the Modern Slavery Act. Ekweremadu and his wife were last year arrested in the United Kingdom for allegedly trafficking a young man into the country to harvest his kidney.

The victim was falsely brought in as Sonia’s cousin in an attempt to convince the doctors to carry out an £80,000 private procedure at the Royal Free Hospital in London all in a bid to save the life of Sonia who is a master’s degree student in Film at Newcastle University, UK because kidney disease forced her to drop out.

The young man was said to have been offered an illegal reward to become a donor for Sonia after of a.

The prosecutor, Hugh Davies KC, told the court the Ekweremadus and Obeta had treated the man and other potential donors as “disposable assets – spare parts for reward”.

He said they entered an “emotionally cold commercial transaction” with the man, The Guardian UK report added.

The behaviour of Ekweremadu showed “entitlement, dishonesty and hypocrisy”, Davies told the jury.

He said Ekweremadu “agreed to reward someone for a kidney for his daughter – somebody in circumstances of poverty and from whom he distanced himself and made no inquiries, and with whom, for his own political protection, he wanted no direct contact”.

Davies added, “What he agreed to do was not simply expedient in the clinical interests of his daughter, Sonia, it was exploitation, it was criminal. It is no defence to say he acted out of love for his daughter. Her clinical needs cannot come at the expense of the exploitation of somebody in poverty.”