By Tosin Olatokunbo
Former Deputy Senate President, Dr Ike Ekweremadu, 60, and his wife, Dr Nwanneka Ekweremadu, 55, are to remain in custody, in London, until July 7, 2022.
The Uxbridge Magistrate Court, to which they were arraigned, denied them bail, and adjourned the case to July 7, 2022.
The Ekweremadus were arrested, detained and taken to Court Thursday afternoon, on the allegation that they were involved in a conspiracy to harvest the organ of a 15-year old.
Ekweremadu’s daughter needed a kidney transplant in London where she has been, waiting for a donor.
The alleged victim, the Court was told, who has now been safe-guarded by the Police, was picked by the Ekweremadus from the streets of Lagos.
There have been other versions to the story too.
One of the stories alleged the victim was a willing donor who got to London, turned rogue, and reported the Ekweremadus to the Immigration where he went to seek asylum.
Another version alleged that, yes, he was a willing donor, who was promised University education in London, and whose mother had already been paid, but was rejected by the doctors at the hospital who, on suspicion, given the age, tipped the Police off.
