Ekweremadu’s wife returns to Nigeria after release from UK prison

After spending almost two years out of her six-year sentence, Beatrice Ekweremadu, the wife of former Deputy Senate President Ike Ekweremadu, has returned to the country.

The Guardian gathered that Beatrice was released on good conduct while the former deputy senate president still serves his 10-year sentence in the United Kingdom.

In 2023, Ike Ekweremadu and his wife were arrested alongside Dr Obinna Obeta for plotting to exploit a poor street trader by transporting him to the United Kingdom and using him as a kidney donor for their daughter, Sonia Ekweremadu, who needed a kidney transplant.

The trio promised to sponsor the victim to the UK but failed to inform him that they needed him as a kidney donor for their daughter.

The victim of Ekweremadu’s organ trafficking ploy agreed to have medical tests run on him.

During the trial, he told the court that it was only until doctors at the Royal Free Hospital in London debriefed him about a kidney transplant that he discovered the truth.

He added that he would not have agreed to be a kidney donor to Sonia if the former deputy senate president had told him the truth from the onset, noting that “his body was not for sale.”

According to the deputy chief crown prosecutor and national modern slavery lead at the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS), Lynette Woodrow, Ekweremadu, his wife, and the doctor were guilty of human trafficking for organ removal.