University Of Lincoln Speaks On Appointment Given To Ekweremadu After He Was Found Guilty Of Organ-harvesting Plot

University Of Lincoln Speaks On Appointment Given To Ekweremadu After He Was Found Guilty Of Organ-harvesting Plot

The University of Lincoln has defended the appointment of a visiting professor who was found guilty of an organ-harvesting plot. Nigerian politician Ike Ekweremadu, 60, his wife Beatrice, 56, and medical “middleman” Dr Obinna Obeta, 50, were found guilty of conspiring to exploit a young man for his body part on Thursday, March 23.

Their 25-year-old daughter, Sonia, who has a serious kidney condition, wept in court at the Old Bailey as she was cleared by the jury, which deliberated for nearly 14 hours. The victim, a 21-year-old street trader from Lagos, was brought to the UK last year to provide a kidney to Sonia in an £80,000 private transplant at the Royal Free Hospital in London.

The prosecution claimed the donor was offered up to £7,000 and the promise of a better life in the UK. It was alleged the defendants tried to convince medics at the Royal Free by pretending he was Sonia’s cousin when, in fact, they were not related.

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An investigation was launched after the young man ran away from London and slept rough for days before walking into a police station more than 20 miles away in Surrey, crying and in distress.

Ike Ekweremadu was made a visiting professor at the University of Lincoln in 2022. A spokesperson for the university said that he had a “distinguished track record of public service” at the time of his appointment, but his title has now been removed following the court case.

A statement from the University of Lincoln reads: “At the time of his appointment, Mr Ekweremadu had a distinguished track record of public service in Nigeria. As soon as the allegations were raised, we suspended his appointment as a visiting professor, without prejudice, pending the outcome of the court case.

“It has now been removed. Visiting professors are often, as in this case, non-resident at the university, unpaid and advisory.”

Joanne Jakymec, Chief Crown Prosecutor, said: “This was an horrific plot to exploit a vulnerable victim by trafficking him to the UK for the purpose of transplanting his kidney.

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