Former presidential aide, Reno Omokri has revealed what a Northern Nigerian Muslim donor would have carried out within the case of former Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu.
KanyiDaily remembers that yesterday Could 5, a United Kingdom court sentenced Ike Ekweremadu to 9 years and eight months in jail for organ trafficking.
The court docket additionally sentenced his spouse, Beatrice, to 4 years six months whereas the medical physician who acted as a ‘intermediary’ within the plot, Dr Obinna Obeta, was sentenced to 10 years and his medical license was additionally suspended.
In March 2023, the jury found the convicts guilty of criminal conspiracy to convey a 21-year-old Lagos road dealer to London to use him for his kidney.
The younger man was mentioned to have been falsely introduced because the cousin of Ekweremadu’s daughter, Sonia, in a failed bid to influence medical doctors to hold out an £80,000 personal process on the Royal Free Hospital in London.
The person was mentioned to have been supplied an unlawful reward to change into a donor for Sonia after kidney illness compelled her to drop out of a grasp’s diploma in movie at Newcastle College.
Reacting to the sentencing of Ekweremadu, his spouse, and their physician, Reno Omokri expressed his sympathy for the senator’s household whereas expressing opposition to their plan of action.
He argued that if a Northern Nigerian Muslim was introduced into London to avoid wasting somebody’s life, the donor would have reported their disagreement to the mosque fairly than the police station.
He wrote, ‘’If a Northern Nigerian Muslim had been delivered to London by a determined Northern Nigerian Muslim in search of to avoid wasting his daughter’s life, and the meant donor modified his thoughts, he would most definitely have headed over to the closest mosque, fairly than the closest police station. Even in disagreement, my expertise in Northern Nigeria taught me that they might fairly use Islam for decision than use different means.
“And that’s one factor I’ll ceaselessly admire about Northern Nigerian Muslims. The truth that they have an inclination to cowl their very own in good and unhealthy occasions. It doesn’t matter what the world says about their very own, they may cuddle her or him publicly, and any rebuke could be carried out in personal. That way of life builds unity, and unity brings energy!
“I don’t help what Ike Ekweremadu and his spouse did. However I empathise with them. Could God by no means allow me to be in the identical place. I have no idea what I might do in such circumstances. Could the Almighty present aid to the Ekweremadus. In Yeshua’s Title.”
In the meantime, Nigerians on Twitter have reacted to Ike Ekweremadu’s jail sentence, saying it was properly deserved justice, others sympathized with him and his household.