Matthew Page, a Nigeria expert at the US state department’s bureau of intelligence and research, had warned the UK’s National Crime Agency (NCA) of the activities of Ike Ekweremadu, former senate president, before the inception of his organ trafficking case.
to nine years and eight months in prison, while his wife, Beatrice, was sentenced to four years and six months for the same offence.
In partnership with the UK’s department for international development, Page examined how Nigerian politicians including Ekweremadu used unexplained wealth to buy millions of pounds worth of properties in the UK. “But in that period he bought three properties – two in London and one in Cambridge – worth £4.2m. The Old Bailey heard that Ekweremadu had an international property portfolio worth more than £6m.
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