Senior Nigerian politician guilty of trafficking man to UK to provide a kidney - BBC report

A senior Nigerian politician, his wife and a medical middleman have been found guilty of trafficking a man to Britain to provide a kidney, the BBC reported on Thursday.

Ike Ekweremadu, his wife Beatrice, and Nigerian doctor Obinna Obeta, who is accused of acting as a middle man, were convicted in a British court of conspiring to exploit the man from Lagos for his kidney, the BBC report said. All three

had denied a charge of conspiracy to arrange travel of another person with a view to exploitation between August 2021 and May 2022.