The Metropolitan Police have opened an investigation on the former Deputy Senate President Ike Ekweremadu who is in prison for attempted organ harvesting.
Ekweremadu and his wife Beatrice were jailed on May 5, 2023, after being found guilty of convincing doctors at the Royal Free Hospital in London to perform an £80,000 transplant on the donor who was presented as the cousin of their daughter Sonia.
On August 23, media personality Chude Jideonwo released the first part of a docuseries ‘Daniel vs Ekweremadu — the battle over one man’s kidney’.
The documentary was shot in Nigeria and UK.
Mr Jideonwo shed more light on it in a statement on Wednesday, saying the documentary reveals that there is a new case under investigation by the London MET police which has been linked to Ekweremadu.
“The documentary tells the story of Ekweremadu’s fall from Nigerian deputy senate president to British jailbird upon his conviction for organ harvesting,” the statement reads.
“Amongst the many revelations in the blockbuster documentary ‘Daniel vs Ekweremadu’ from the studio, Chude Jideonwo presents is the news that the London Metropolitan Police is currently investigating a case linked to that of former Nigerian deputy senate president, Ike Ekweremadu who was sentenced to 10 years in a British jail for human trafficking last year.
“In an email from a spokesperson to the police, Alexandra Meek to the producers as shown in the documentary, she said —‘With regards to the live investigation, which is linked — On Tuesday, 8 November 2022 detectives from the Met’s Specialist Crime arrested a woman on suspicion of conspiracy to exploit for the purposes of organ harvesting. The woman, who is in her 50s, has been released under investigation. Enquiries remain ongoing.”
Ms Meek, who is senior communication manager for the MET Police, gave this as a reason for the police’s inability to participate in the documentary.
“’Daniel’ is the name given by a journalist and adopted by the documentary filmmakers for the victim-survivor of the first conviction under the UK’s Modern Slavery Law – under which Ekweremadu became the first to be sentenced to jail alongside his wife, Beatrice and a doctor-friend, Obinna Obeta.
“It follows a directive from the judge of the case for the real name to remain undisclosed,” Jideonwo added.
The series, he said, includes exclusive access to British prosecutors, police, the family of the survivor-victim amongst others.
