UKcourtjailsNigeriansenator andwifefororgan-harvestplot

- Ike Ekweremadu sentenced to nine years and eight months and wife Beatrice sentenced to four years and six months

Aljazeera - A wealthy Nigerian Senate–onbehalfoftheSenate. politician, his wife and a doctor have been He said, “It was the first time our jailed by a London court for trafficking a colleague is getting involved in this kind of street trader from Lagos to the United thing.” Kingdomtoillegallyharvesthiskidneyfora Prosecutors said the couple had brought transplantfortheirseriouslyilldaughter the man to the UK in February last year with

The UK’s Crown Prosecution Service the offer of a few thousand pounds for his (CPS) said on Friday that Ike Ekweremadu organandthepromiseofworkintheUK. had been sentenced to nine years and eight The case came to light when the man, months in the UK’s first illegal organ- who had made a living in Lagos selling harvesting prosecution, while his wife telephone parts in a market, went to police Beatrice,56,wassentencedtofouryearsand saying he had been trafficked and someone sixmonths. wastryingtoharvesthiskidney

Nigerian doctor, Obinna Obeta, 51 – Theproposedtransplantdidnotgoahead described by prosecutors as a middleman – as a consultant at London’s Royal Free was jailed for 10 years, the CPS said. All Hospital became suspicious about the three were convicted in March of conspiring circumstances surrounding the proposed to arrange the travel of a man in order to donor, aged about 21 who cannot be named harvesthisorgans. for legal reasons, who the family had tried to

President of the Nigerian Senate,Ahmad passoffastheirdaughter’scousin. Lawansaidearlierintheweekhehadwritten Sonia Ekweremadu, the intended to the British judicial authorities seeking recipient of the organ and who has a serious clemency for Ekweremadu – an opposition and deteriorating kidney condition requiring senator and former deputy president of the dialysis,wasfoundnotguilty.

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With the passing of time, inclement Indians for personal greed, employment economicsituation,enforcedbydictatorship, opportunities, financial satisfaction and side lining of unilateralism, prejudice, racial social advancement, all at the demise and discrimination, political favoritism, social expense of the struggling class. No wonder upheaval and religious suppression, Indo Indo Guyanese are spectators and not Guyanesewithotherethnicitiesnotfavorable consumers with the celebration of Republic supporters of the then demeaning Day, Mashramani and Independence Day administration, were unavoidably migrating Not being fooled or tranquilized by to greener pastures. They were all escaping magicians, circus performers and dirty, from the devaluation of the dollar, the dangerous and devious ring leaders, they restricted foreign exchange system, the fashionaheadontheirshoulderandcansmell banningoffooditems,nationalizationandits a rat from a mile. Arrival Day should be repercussions, the paramountcy of the PNC renamed as IndianArrival Day to underscore party, Burnhamism, the party card passport, thereflectionofthesacrificesoftheancestors the political domination in the ministries, of East Indians from India and, their publicsectorandagencies. contribution towards the peace, progress and

With the turning of the tide, Indo prosperityofallGuyana.

Guyanese have proliferated, persevered and Yours respectfully, propelled to a stage of predisposition, Jai Lall.

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