Organ harvesting : Senator Ekweremadu’s wife granted bail, husband still in detention

Is it right for a mother to inflict pain on others just to save her own child?

A Nigerian senator’s wife, Beatrice Ekweremadu , accused of plotting to traffic a homeless man into the UK to harvest a kidney for her daughter has been granted bail.

Beartrice Ekweremadu, 55, together with her husband Ike Ekweremadu,60, allegedly trafficked a 21-year-old to London from the streets of Lagos in other to harvest his organ to transplant to their daughter who is suffering from Kidney failure. 

Ike, a barrister, and former Deputy president of the Nigerian senate, and Beatrice, an accountant, appeared at the Old Bailey on Friday for a bail hearing. The husband was denied bail while Beatrice was granted bail based on some fairly stringent conditions.