Nigerian politician jailed in UK over plot to harvest man's kidney
Nigerian politician Ike Ekweremadu who had flown a young street trader to Britain to harvest his kidney for his sick daughter. A court in UK has jailed him for nine years and eight months for the offence. PHOTO | PIUS UTOMI EKPEI | AFP
A UK court on Friday jailed Nigeria's former deputy senate president for nine years and eight months, following his landmark conviction for plotting to harvest a man's kidney for his sick daughter.
In the first UK case of its kind, judge Jeremy Johnson handed Ike Ekweremadu, 60, the prison sentence for his part in a "despicable trade" that took advantage of the "poverty, misery and desperation" of vulnerable people.
