The situation for Nigerian Elites is heating up.
It is a classic situation of “EAT THE RICH”
The truth is the West is coming after people with obscene wealth and this is a huge warning alert for those who have made their money from being in key Govt positions.
In addition elites who purchase properties abroad and store their funds there will begin to see a large crackdown on this practice. Properties will be seized and reasons will be found to legally do so such as in Ekweramadu’s case.
Indeed one should hope for only a property and or asset seize and not the worst case scenario…a 10 year jail sentence like Ekweremadu and his wife have received.
It is common knowledge that elite Africans are accustomed to the practice of bringing in Help to act as housekeepers from their countries. This practice should be stopped by anyone who is doing so now as there is great risk of being jailed. You could easily end up as Ekweremadu accused of human trafficking.
The risk is not worth it as you can clearly see.
Ike Ekweremadu, 60, a former Senate president, his wife, Beatrice, 56, and Dr Obinna Obeta, 51, were found guilty of facilitating the travel of a young man to Britain with a view to his exploitation after a six-week trial at the Old Bailey.
They supposedly criminally conspired to bring the 21-year-old Lagos street trader to London to exploit him for his kidney, the jury found.
The man, who cannot be named for legal reasons, had been offered an illegal reward to become a donor for the senator’s daughter after kidney disease forced her to drop out of a master’s degree in film at Newcastle University, the court heard.
Back in February 2022, the young man was falsely presented to a private renal unit at Royal Free hospital in London as Sonia’s cousin in a failed attempt to persuade medics to carry out an £80,000 transplant. For a fee, a medical secretary at the hospital acted as an Igbo translator between the man and the doctors to help try to convince them he was an altruistic donor, the court heard.
The prosecutor Hugh Davies KC told the court the Ekweremadus and Obeta had treated the man and other potential donors as “disposable assets – spare parts for reward”. He said they entered an “emotionally cold commercial transaction” with the man.
The behaviour of Ekweremadu, a successful lawyer and founder of an anti-poverty charity who helped draw up Nigeria’s laws against organ trafficking, showed “entitlement, dishonesty and hypocrisy”, Davies told the jury.
He said Ekweremadu, who owns several properties and had a staff of 80, “agreed to reward someone for a kidney for his daughter – somebody in circumstances of poverty and from whom he distanced himself and made no inquiries, and with whom, for his own political protection, he wanted no direct contact”.
The situation for Nigerian Elites is heating up.
This daughter is now left to fight for her life without her parents
Her condition was not enough to get her parents out of this nightmare
Our hearts go out to Sonia
