President Bola Tinubu has sent a high-powered delegation to London to discuss the case of a former deputy senate president, Ike Ekweremadu, who has been serving a jail term in the United Kingdom since March 2023.

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The Federal Government is actively seeking arrangements that will allow Ekweremadu to serve the remainder of his sentence in Nigeria, Channels Television learnt.

The delegation included the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Yusuf Tuggar, and the Attorney General and Minister of Justice, Lateef Fagbemi SAN, among others.

It held discussions with officials at the UK justice ministry regarding the former deputy senate president’s imprisonment.

The delegation was later received at the Nigerian High Commission in London by the Acting High Commissioner to the UK, Ambassador Mohammed Maidugu.

A source at the ministry in Nigeria disclosed that consultations with UK authorities were ongoing, as a formal request for a prisoner transfer to allow the senator to serve the remainder of his sentence in Nigeria had been submitted.

The London Metropolitan Police arrested Ekweremadu and his wife in June 2022, after a young man was falsely presented to a private renal unit at the Royal Free Hospital in London as a cousin to their daughter, Sonia.

It later turned out to be a failed attempt to persuade medical workers to carry out an £80,000 transplant.

The senator from Enugu State was later found guilty and convicted in the UK for his role in organ trafficking.

In May 2023, Ekweremadu was sentenced to nine years and eight months under the UK Modern Slavery Act.

His wife, Beatrice, received a four-year and six-month sentence and was released early in 2025.

A medical intermediary, Dr Obinna Obeta, received a 10-year prison sentence.