Foreign

Kenya Cult Deaths: Autopsies Rule Out Organ Harvesting

Web News 8 May 2023 1285 0

Autopsies on at least 112 bodies of cult victims exhumed from shallow graves in Kenya’s coastal Kilifi County have ruled out organ harvesting. Government pathologists said some of the victims died of starvation, strangulation and suffocation. Kenyan police are expected to dig up more graves in Continue Reading

Crime

UK Court Convicts Ekweremadu, wife of Organ Trafficking

Web News 23 March 2023 243 0

Former Nigerian Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu, his wife, daughter and a doctor have been convicted of organ trafficking, in the first verdict of its kind under the Modern Slavery Act.  According to a UK medium, The 60-year-old politician, his wife, Beatrice, 56, daughter Sonia 25, and Dr Obinna Obeta, 51, were found guilty of […]Continue Reading

Judiciary

UK Court Ruling Clears Ekweremadu over Case of Minor

Web News 7 July 2022 400 0

The Uxbridge Magistrates’ Court in the United Kingdom has ruled that the kidney donor in Ekweremadu’s case, David Ukpo is not a minor. Both Ekweremadu and his wife appeared in court today and they pleaded not guilty to the charge of organ harvesting while the case has been transferred to the Central Criminal Court. Prosecutors […]Continue Reading

Crime

Organ Harvesting: FG Engages Lawyers to Defend Ekweremadu

Web News 29 June 2022 402 0

The Federal Government through the Nigerian High Commission to the United Kingdom has hired lawyers to defend a former Deputy Senate President, Senator Ike Ekweremadu and his wife, Beatrice, over allegations of organ harvesting. The Senate President Ahmad Lawan who disclosed this after a closed-door session of the chamber on Wednesday, added that a delegation […]Continue Reading

Foreign

Organ Harvesting: Ex-Deputy Senate President, Wife, Arrested in London

Web News 24 June 2022 595 0

A former deputy president of the Nigerian Senate and his wife have been charged with conspiring to transport a boy to the UK in order to harvest organs. Senator Ike Ekweremadu, 60, and his wife Beatrice Ekweremadu, 55, appeared at Uxbridge Magistrates’ Court in west London on Thursday. The Metropolitan Police of the United Kingdom […]Continue Reading