Ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo has pleaded with the United Kingdom for clemency in the ongoing alleged organ harvesting case of Senator Ike Ekweremadu and his wife Beatrice Ekweremadu.
The couple were apprehended when they received a complaint from a young Nigerian boy they had transported from Nigeria to harvest his organ.
The former senate president and his wife risk a ten-year prison sentence after being found guilty in line with the Modern Slavery Act 2015 of the United Kingdom.
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However, Obasanjo wrote a letter addressed to the Chief Clerk, the Central Criminal Court, Old Bailey, in London pleading on behalf of Ekweremadu.
As reported by the Vanguard, the letter read: “Mr. Chief Clerk, I am very much aware of the current travails and conviction of Ike Ekweremadu and his wife in the United Kingdom resulting from their being charged with conspiring to arrange the travel of a 21-year-old from Nigeria to the UK in order to harvest organs for their daughter.
“I do realise the implications of their action and I dare say, it is unpleasant and condemnable and can’t be tolerated in any sane or civilised society.
“However, it is my fervent desire for very warm relations between the United Kingdom and Federal Republic of Nigeria; for his position as one of the distinguished Senators in the Nigerian Parliament, and also for the sake of their daughter in question whose current health condition is in danger and requires urgent medical attention, you will use your good offices to intervene and appeal to the court and the government of the United Kingdom to be magnanimous enough to temper justice with mercy and let punishment that may have to come take their good character and parental instinct and care into consideration.
“I do hope Mr. and Mrs. Ekweremadu have learnt from this distressing experience of theirs to guide their future actions or inactions so they will continue to be outstanding members of their community and will continue to contribute fully to the good of the society in particular and the nation in general.”
