The Senate President Ahmad Lawan has revealed that the Federal Government through the Nigerian High Commission in the United Kingdom, has engaged the services of lawyers to defend the former Deputy Senate President and currently a serving senator, Ike Ekweremadu, and his wife, Beatrice.
According to a statement by the Special Assistant (Press) to the Senate President, Dr Ezrel Tabiowo, this was made known by Lawan while giving details on the outcome of a closed session held by the upper chamber before the start of plenary proceedings on Wednesday morning.
Lawan said that a delegation from its Committee on Foreign Affairs would depart Nigeria for London on July 1, 2022, to pay a visit to the embattled couple presently in detention over an allegation of organ harvesting.
What the Senate President is saying
Lawan said that the decision to intervene in Ekweremadu’s arrest and detention was against the backdrop of a briefing received by the Nigerian High Commissioner to London, adding that the Senate would engage the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Nigerian High Commission in London on the recent arrest of Senator Ike Ekweremadu by the London Metropolitan Police in the United Kingdom.
He said, “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.
In case you missed it
- Recall that on June 23, Ike Ekweremadu and his wife were arrested in the United Kingdom for an alleged organ harvesting offence.
- The couple, Beatrice Nwanneka Eweremadu, 55, and Ike Ekweremadu, 60, are currently remanded in the custody of the Metropolitan Police, and were charged with conspiracy to arrange and facilitate the travel of another person with a view to exploitation (organ harvesting).
- The couple, who were arraigned at the Uxbridge Magistrate Court in London on charges of conspiracy and organ harvesting on Thursday, June 23, were remanded in custody till July 7, 2022, which is the next adjournment date.
