LONDON—A radiologist accused of being the middleman in an illegal attempt to procure a kidney from a street trader in Lagos that was to be donated to the daughter of a wealthy Nigerian politician has admitted he lied when he claimed his own donor was his cousin.
Obinna Obeta, 51, told a jury he himself underwent a kidney transplant in July 2021 and admitted he lied on the paperwork but added, “I was desperate to survive.”
Obeta is on trial in London along with Ike Ekweremadu, 60, a senator in Nigeria and a former deputy president of the country’s senate, his wife Beatrice, 56, and their daughter Sonia, 25….