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Senate Intervenes Ekweremadu’s Alleged Organ Harvesting Case

The Nigerian High Commission has hired lawyers in the UK who will defend former Deputy Senate President Ike Ekweremadu when he appears in court next month on alleged organ harvesting.

Senate President Ahmed Lawan revealed this after a closed-door session of the chamber on Wednesday.

“I had a personal engagement with our Nigerian High Commissioner to Britain, Alhaji Isola Sarafa, who has done so well to establish contact with our colleague, who has been able to get his team to be in the court at Uxbridge where Ekweremadu was taken to,” Lawan said in a statement issued after the closed-door session.

“The high Commission has also been able to provide some consular services that include the engagement of some lawyers who will defend our colleague.

“We commend them for giving attention to the issue at stake. Equally, the Nigeria Foreign Affairs Minister has been engaged here so that the Ministry of Foreign Affairs takes steps to provide diplomatic support for our colleagues.

“Because this issue is already in court, we have limited opportunity to discuss beyond what we have done so far.

“But I want to ensure the family of our colleague, Senator Ike Ekweremadu, and Nigerians that the Senate will continue to engage with our ministry of foreign affairs and our high commission in London.

“The High Commission has done so much, but we still expect that it will continue to provide any other further consular services.”

Lawan also mentioned that a delegation from the Senate would travel to the UK to meet with the embattled Ekweremadu, who, together with his wife, is now being held in custody by the UK Government on suspicion of organ harvesting.

According to him, members of the Senate Committee on Foreign Affairs will be travelling to the UK in the next two days to meet with Senator Ekweremadu.

“There will be a delegation to London to see Senator Ike Ekweremadu and his wife. A delegation from the Senate Committee on Foreign Affairs of the Senate will leave in the next two days for London for that purpose,” the statement added.

“I want to urge all federal government institutions that can do anything to ensure that justice prevails in this case that they do so.”

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