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The Federal Government engages Lawyers To Defend Senator Ike Ekweremadu

 

Alleged organ trafficking:

The Special Assistant, Press to Senator Ahmad Lawan, Dr. Ezrel Tabiowo,  in a statement granted and labeled, ‘Senate delegation to visit Ekweremadu, wife in London’. Disclosed that The Federal Government through the Nigerian High Commission to the United Kingdom has hired lawyers to stand in for the former Deputy Senate President, Senator Ike Ekweremadu and his wife, Beatrice, who are in the Police custody in the United Kingdom over allegations of organ harvesting.

Senate President, Ahmad Lawan who made the disclosure after a closed-door session of the chamber on Wednesday, added that a delegation of the Chamber would on or before Friday this week visit Ekweremadu and his wife in London.

“I had a personal engagement with our Nigerian High Commissioner to Britain, Alhaji Isola Sarafa, who has done so well to establish contact with our colleague, who has been able to get his team to be in the court at Uxbridge where Ekweremadu was taken to, he said


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