Organ Harvesting: Senator Sani Canvasses Support For Embattled Ekweremadu

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.

In 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

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. In October 2004, Okosi joined Complete Communications Limited, publishers of Complete Sports newspaper and Complete Football magazine as a reporter and later script writer for the Complete Sports studio. He worked there for 13 years until October 2017. Okosi also worked various times as Correspondent, Content creator and Editor at Sports Market International Magazine, Opera News, All Nigeria Soccer Media and Iconic Media Watch. He also undertook freelance writing gigs for some local and international organizations. Okosi is a member of the Actors Guild of Nigeria (AGN), Association of Movie Producers (AMP), Association of Voiceover Artistes of Nigeria (AVOA), Sports Writers Association of Nigeria (SWAN) and Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ). He has been part of cast in some Nollywood movies and radio dramas including Blood Money 2, Scores To Settle, Dead End 2, Another Campus Tale and Battle Line. Aside mainstream media and the entertainment industry, he has interests in scouting/unearthing of talents in the sports and creative sectors, exports business and property development.