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Ohanaeze Ndigbo, has attacked the Federal Government of Nigeria for doing nothing to save the neck of Ike Ekweremadu, a former deputy senate president, who was sentenced to nine years and eight months by a UK court on Friday for plotting to harvest a man’s kidney for his sick daughter. Beatrice, his wife, was also handed four years, six months sentence. The accomplice medical doctor, Obinna Obeta slammed 10 years on him.
Chief Alex Ogbonnia, the spokesperson for Ohanaeze Ndigbo, argued that the Federal Government did nothing to help Ekweremadu. In other words, the FG left his son to the wolves!
In an interview with The Punch, Ogbonnia stated, “They did not treat him like someone who has served meritoriously in this country. Rather, while he was facing the travails, the Federal Government came out with charges and allegations of corruption and seized his properties.
“This is a man who has been around you, walked with you for years and when he needed your help, there you were busy talking about auctioning his properties. All those things indicated that it was not only the UK court that was after him, but the FG was also after him.”
Describing the judgment as ‘shocking’ and ‘painful’, the spokesman said Igbo leaders would pay Ekweremadu a visit soon, adding that the former lawmaker would come out of the experience ‘stronger and better’.
He added, “Before now, although not as Ohanaeze, we have visited him in prison. We still intend to do so even as he begins his sentence. It is shocking and painful that an illustrious Igbo man of that calibre will be involved in this kind of sentencing. However, there is nothing we can do about it for now.
Recall the trio of Ekweremadu, Beatrice and Obeta were convicted of conspiracy to arrange the travel of a young Nigerian man who was identified as David Nwamini to Britain in…
