Senator Ike Ekweremadu, along with his wife Beatrice and their doctor Obinna Obeta to sentenced on May 5th

Senator Ike Ekweremadu, along with his wife Beatrice and their doctor Obinna Obeta, are facing sentencing on May 5th following their conviction for organ trafficking. This marks the first verdict of its kind under the Modern Slavery Act in the UK. The three were found guilty of facilitating the travel of a young man to Britain in order to exploit him for his kidney.

The man had been offered a reward to become a donor for the senator's daughter after kidney disease forced her to drop out of a master's degree program. The court heard that the trio conspired to bring the 21-year-old Lagos street trader to London and falsely presented him as Sonia's cousin in a failed attempt to persuade medics to carry out an £80,000 transplant.

 Ekweremadu, a successful lawyer and founder of an anti-poverty charity who helped draw up Nigeria's laws against organ trafficking, was found to have shown "entitlement, dishonesty, and hypocrisy" in his behavior. The prosecutor accused the trio of treating potential donors as "disposable assets - spare parts for reward" in an "emotionally cold commercial transaction".