Ekweremadu

The wife of former Deputy Senate President, Senator Ike Ekweremadu, Mrs. Beatrice Ekweremadu, has returned to Nigeria after being released from a UK prison.

Mrs Ekweremadu reportedly arrived in Nigeria on Tuesday.

It will be recalled that Senator Ike Ekweremadu, his wife Beatrice, and a medical doctor, Dr. Obinna Obeta, were convicted in the United Kingdom for their involvement in a controversial organ harvesting case.

The UK court sentenced Senator Ekweremadu to 10 years in prison, while Mrs. Ekweremadu received a six-year sentence.

A source has revealed that former deputy Senate president, Ike Ekweremadu, is getting along well with life in a London prison.

Leading reporters recalls that the Ekweremadus had arranged through Obeta for a young Nigerian to arrive in London for purposes of donating one of his kidneys for their daughter.

Ekweremadu was found guilty under the Modern Slavery Act with his wife and physician, Dr. Obinna Obeta, by an Old Bailey jury in March.

He was subsequently sentenced to over five years in jail in May for organ trafficking.

Not much has been heard about the lawyer and former lawmaker since the court judgement.

But in a chat with Guardian, an official of the Nigerian High Commission disclosed that Ekweremadu was doing well.

“He [Ekweremadu] is fine, he’s fine,” the source said.

Asked if the wife too was getting on with life as an inmate, he said: “That l don’t.”