Izuchukwu Okosi
Following the arrest of former Deputy Senate President Ike Ekweremadu in the UK on allegations of organ harvesting, Senator Shehu Sani has posited that the troubled law maker should get all consular support required to expedite his possible release.
Ekwerenmadu and his wife Beatrice are held for conspiring to bring a young man from Nigeria to London in a bid to conduct kidney transplant for the benefit of his sick daughter.
Join our WhatsApp ChannelIn a tweet posted on Wednesday, Senator Sani said:
“Senator Ike Ekwerenmadu deserves all the necessary consular support he needs. The response of the NASS is in the right direction. But same should be extended to Sunday Igboho.”
In a related development, the Senate on Wednesday at its plenary session agreed to send a high powered delegation of lawmakers to the United Kingdom to meet with Ekweremadu.
Senate President Ahmad Lawan made the disclosure after the Upper Chamber emerged from a closed-door meeting that lasted for about one hour.
Lawan said the delegation, which comprised of members of the Senate Committee on Foreign Affairs, will leave for London, the United Kingdom on Friday.
The Senate President also mandated the committee to engage the British High Commission in Nigeria to get more details on the case.
Izuchukwu Okosi is a Nigerian sports and entertainment journalist with two decades of experience in the media industry having begun his media journey in 2002 as an intern at Mundial Sports International (MSI) and Africa Independent Television (AIT), owners of Daar Communications Plc.
