The United Kingdom, UK government has reportedly rejected requests by the Nigerian government to transfer Senator Ike Ekweremadu to Nigeria.
Ekweremadu, his wife, Beatrice, and a co-conspirator, Dr Obinna Obeta were jailed in the UK for trafficking a young man to London with a view to harvesting his kidney.
They planned to transplant the organ to Ekweremadu’s daughter Sonia in a private unit of an NHS hospital.
President Bola Tinubu’s government recently approached its UK counterpart to appeal for the transfer of the former deputy senate president to Nigeria.
However, a source at the UK Ministry of Justice, MoJ confirmed to The Guardian that the request was rejected
According to the report the UK government is worried over how the federal government may handle the case if the former lawmaker is transferred to Nigeria.
A government spokesperson told the newspaper that “any prisoner transfer is at our discretion following a careful assessment of whether it would be in the interests of justice.”
“The UK will not tolerate modern slavery and any offender will face the full force of UK law”, The Guardian, UK quoted another source.