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Organ Harvesting: Nigeria To Send Personal Information Of Alleged Victim To UK As Ekweremadu, Wife Return To Court

Justice Inyang Ekwo of Nigeria’s Federal High Court, Abuja ordered the National Identification Management Commission (NIMC) to immediately release the biodata of Ukpo to the Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, for immediate transmission to the UK Court.

As the former Nigerian Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu and his wife, Beatrice return to the UK court Thursday (today) for trial over alleged organ harvesting, a Nigerian court has ordered that the biodata of the alleged victim, David Ekpo, should be transmitted to the European court.

 

Justice Inyang Ekwo of Nigeria’s Federal High Court, Abuja ordered the National Identification Management Commission (NIMC) to immediately release the biodata of Ukpo to the Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, for immediate transmission to the UK Court.

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This follows a request by the NIMC and in response to the request of the detained former Deputy Senator for his defence in the UK court.

 

Meanwhile, the Federal High Court had on July 1 issued an order following a suit by Ekweremadu and his wife requesting that NIMC release details of Ukpo to them but the Commission did not obey the order.

 

But at Wednesday’s proceedings, NIMC representative, Mr. Muazu Mohammed, informed Justice Ekwo that the Commission could not obey the court order because it was not served with a hearing notice before the order was issued against it.

 

Mohammed had earlier asked for revocation of the order but later amended his motion on notice, Leadership reports.

 

Rather than asking for revocation of the order, Mohammed requested that NIMC should be directed to submit information on David Ukpo to the AGF instead of Ekweremadu for onward transmission to the UK Court.

 

As Ekweremadu’s counsel, Adegboyega Awomolo (SAN) did not oppose the request.

 

SaharaReporters earlier exclusively reported how Ekweremadu’s wife is being held at HMP Bronzefield prison in the United Kingdom, an adult and young offender female prison located on the outskirts of Ashford in Surrey, England.

 

It is also the only purpose-built private prison solely for women in the UK, and is the largest female prison in Europe and operated by Sodexo Justice Services.

 

Senator Ekweremadu and his wife have been denied bail as the prosecutors reportedly informed the court that the Nigerian lawmaker procured a passport for the boy and claimed he was 21 years old whereas it was discovered that he was 15 years old.

 

The case was adjourned to July 7 (today) at Westminster Magistrate Court to enable the UK Attorney General, Suella Braverman, to determine whether the case will be tried in the country or in Nigeria.

 

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