A wealthy Nigerian politician, his wife and a doctor have been jailed for trafficking a street trader from Lagos to Britain to illegally harvest his kidney for a transplant for their seriously ill daughter.
A wealthy Nigerian politician, his wife and a doctor have been jailed by a London court for trafficking a street trader from Lagos to Britain to illegally harvest his kidney for a transplant for their seriously ill daughter.
Nigerian doctor Obinna Obeta, 51 — described by prosecutors as a middleman — was jailed for 10 years, the CPS said. President of the Nigerian senate Ahmad Lawan said earlier in the week he had written to the British judicial authorities seeking clemency for Ekweremadu — an opposition senator and former deputy president of Nigeria's senate — on behalf of the senate.Prosecutors said the couple had brought the man to Britain in February last year with the offer of a few thousand pounds for his organ and the promise of work in Britain.
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