Nigerian Senator and Wife Convicted in UK of Buying Kidney for Daughter in Landmark Legal Case

Politician faces jail sentence after organ harvesting trial

Undated images of Nigerian senator Ike Ekweremadu (L), his wife Beatrice (C), and middleman Obinna Obeta (R), who were all convicted after an organ harvesting trial at the Old Bailey in London on March 23, 2023. Metropolitan Police

A senior Nigerian politician, his wife, and a middleman have been convicted of exploiting a young street trader from Lagos, Nigeria, whose kidney they needed in order to save the life of the couple’s seriously ill daughter.

Sen. Ike Ekweremadu, 60, his wife Beatrice, 56, and medical “middleman” Obinna Obeta, 50, were found guilty of conspiring to arrange or facilitate the travel of the young man to the UK to exploit him for his kidney.