LONDON—A senior Nigerian politician, his wife, and a middleman have been jailed for bringing a young street trader from Lagos to London and trying to use one of his kidneys to save the life of the couple’s seriously ill daughter.
Sen. Ike Ekweremadu, 60, was jailed for 9 years and 8 months, his wife Beatrice, 56, was sentenced to 4 years and 6 months, and medical “middleman” Obinna Obeta, 51, was jailed for 10 years.
All three were found guilty in March of conspiring to arrange or facilitate the travel of the young man to the UK to exploit him for his kidney.
Their 25-year-old daughter, Sonia Ekweremadu—who has been diagnosed with a serious kidney condition called focal segmental glomerulosclerosis with nephrotic syndrome—was acquitted of the same offence….