LONDON—A wealthy Nigerian politician and his wife offered an itinerant hawker in Lagos up to £7,000 to give his kidney to their ill daughter and lied about him being a distant cousin in order to get a UK visa, a jury at the Old Bailey in London has been told.
Ike Ekweremadu, 60, his wife Beatrice Nwanneka Ekweremadu, 56, and their daughter Sonia, 25, went on trial on Monday along with Obinna Obeta, a doctor. All four deny conspiracy to arrange or facilitate the travel of another person with a view to their exploitation.
The prosecutor, Hugh Davies, KC, said the 21-year-old donor—who cannot be named for legal reasons—arrived in the UK in February 2022 and underwent tests at the Royal Free Hospital in Hampstead, north London, but the operation did not go ahead….