The human trafficking case against a former Deputy President of the Senate, Ike Ekweremadu, and his wife, Beatrice, resumed in a London court on Tuesday.
“Where else in the world would you have a deputy senate president, who is still a serving senator, he’s still getting his regular wage?”
She had pleaded not guilty to the allegation of trafficking a homeless man into the UK to harvest his organs for herself, when she appeared in court on November 7, 2022. A 50-year-old medical doctor from South London, Obinna Obeta, was also arrested in connection to the allegation.
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