A top Nigerian senator and his wife have been charged in the UK over an alleged plot to bring a child into the country for organ-harvesting.
London’s Metropolitan police said that Ike Ekweremadu, 60, and his wife Beatrice Nwanneka Ekweremadu, 55 were charged on Thursday and are due to appear in court in Uxbridge Magistrates’ Court later the same day.
The police said that a child—of unspecified age—has been taken into care.
The couple are both charged with “conspiracy to arrange/facilitate travel of another person with a view to exploitation, namely organ harvesting.”
Ike Ekweremadu served three terms as deputy president of the Senate in Nigeria, from 2007 to 2019….