PETER Obi, Labour Party’s presidential flagbearer, on Friday prayed for justice for ex-deputy president of the Senate, Senator Ike Ekweremadu, over his arrest in the UK.
Reacting, to the news of Senator Ekweremadu’s arrest by London Metropolitan Police and subsequent charge before a UK court, Obi, prayed for justice for the lawmaker as well as the healing of his ailing daughter.
“My family and I are with the Ekweremadus over their travail. We join all men of goodwill in praying for the healing of their daughter and commit them into God’s hand for justice to be done,” Obi said via his Twitter handle.
Ekweremadu and his wife have been charged for bringing a 15-year-old boy from Nigeria to the UK with the claim that he was to be given a better life in the UK but was allegedly tricked to harvest his organ.
The prosecutors reportedly informed the court that Senator Ekweremadu procured a passport for the boy and claimed he was 21 years old, whereas he is 15.
The couple has a daughter with a kidney-related disease and has been on dialysis. The persecutors said they believe the plan was to use an organ from the boy on their daughter who appears to need a kidney transplant.
The lawmaker and his wife were said to have prayed the court, through their separate legal representations, to release them on bail but their prayer was dismissed by the Magistrate. The couple has surrendered their passports to the UK government.
