The United Kingdom has declined the Nigerian government’s request to transfer former Deputy Senate President Ike Ekweremadu to serve the remainder of his prison sentence in Nigeria.
Ekweremadu is currently serving a nine-year, eight-month sentence in the UK, following his 2023 conviction for organ trafficking.
He was found guilty of conspiring to exploit a young man by arranging for his kidney to be harvested for a transplant intended for his ailing daughter.
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