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Compatibility tests could easily be done in Nigeria now
Ekeremadu committed blunder
Anyway he would be discharged acquainted

Wallade:

It is not about his age. It is about the law in the UK. Organ donation must not be done for any material benefit to be earned by the donor or payment made by the receiver. It is strictly to be free will donation.

That law was violated by the Ekweremadus and the boy but the boy may escape if he claims he is unaware he was to donate kidney. I think that is what the boy did.

Do you think that the Ekweremadu's don't know that organ donation should be altruistic? They will argue that the boy agreed to donate his kidney without any material compensation from them. And for the boy to argue otherwise he will only end up creating holes in his story.

I love it, jare, they should look them up in the UK and display to the zoo, for critical appraisal. , its going to be exciting.

AndroBlaze:


Oga all this long story to defend someone me and you know broke their law.....finish. We all know that boy was offered money and other incentives to donate his kidney and thats all that matters....finish. Even the dullest person knows that in law, an ilegal contract cannot hold, i.e. I cannot sue you for failing to kill my wife after I paid you upfront...end of. It is against the UK law to induce someone to give a kidney in UK...end of.

https://www.kidney.org.uk/kidney-transplants-from-relatives-and-friends

The moral of the story is simply this... charity beigins at home! If they had fixed our hospitals and paid our doctors properly in this country (which Ekweremadu,like many of our useless leaders has had the chance to) this matter would have been dealt with in Nigeria and no current judge in Nigeria would find him guilty as they are all selfish and belong to the same party. Charity begins at home!

inoki247:
When I say all this our Politicians no get sense people go think say na Lie...

How can you take someone to UK without confirming the Compatibility of the organ....


No wonder na after dem sign something to Law dem dey read am come dey find way to amend am if I lie check that Electoral act na afta dem sign am dem start to see error..

I think you should be the accused here when it gets to reasoning. What hospital in Nigeria Is capable of handling histocompactibility? Moreover, the operation was to be done in the United Kingdom so, they are in the best position to subject the donor to tissue compatibility to enable adequate result.

obailala:
And who told you they hadnt tested the compatibility in a Nigerian hospital before proceeding to the UK?

“After conducting various medical tests, the Royal Free Hospital in London decided that the said David Nwamini Ukpo was not a suitable donor because his kidney is not compatible with that of Sonia Ekweremadu"

Shows that no test was done in Nigeria

I thought Nigerian Immigration Service has already come out to say the boy is 21 years old and they followed due process in issuing him Nigerian Passport ?

Lifestone:

With you not with me. He has done nothing wrong, He will be freed at last, it's just a travail

He has done nothing wrong and he was arrested and to be charged to court? You think everywhere is like Nigeria where you get arrested with no evidence abi

We Will all be here by July 8 or whenever he will face his fate

redseason:

Look at how you just disgraced yourself now. Typical bring him down mentality! No one here likes Ekweremadu because he was DSP for 12 years, has been in government for more than 2 decades and Nigeria cannot handle organ transplant. Be it as it may, supporting a liar, thief and manipulator simply because the senator is also a thief makes no sense. Your pain follows the path that his unraveling has begun to unfold.

In your attempt to sound intelligent, you did not take time to read that what you quoted had to do with restrictions on persons NOT genetically related. In other words, transplants can either be between genetically related persons or NON-genetically related persons. You also have never heard of the term “waiting list”, so you don’t know someone can have a failed organ which no one in his living linage can be a match and he/she will be confined to a wait list. It did not occur to you that in the past 5 years, the senator would have searched within their close family/friends knit without success before extending the search. There are people who after being on wait list for so long end up getting organs from even another country or continent. The senator will only be guilty if he offered money for the kidney outside medical costs and opportunity loses to the donor.

Fantastic reasoning.

ERockson:
Thorough investigation should be conducted to determine whether be was awared of the real purpose of the journey. The fact that the senator did not deal with the boy directly calls for suspection. Whether the boy is 15 or 22yearss, There should be withness from the boy's family if the senator wanted a fair deal

The boy was just trying to play smart but Ekweremadu is senseless and reaping the reward of their collective ineffectiveness as leaders. He wanted the best for his daughter but people die in that country every day due to lack of medical infrastructure

I enjoy seeing politicians who think they are above the law face the law.

pocohantas:


I don’t get the hullabaloo anymore. Thankfully the guy is not a minor. He fully consented to donate his kidney. Whether Ekweremadu’s family could/should have donated theirs is not the topic. Except of course it is illegal for someone other than a blood relative to donate. Which doesn’t seem to be to be the case here.

It is the same thing you get upset about when Nigerians take advantage of vulnerable children and make them househelp.

It is the same argument. They are being helped and paid for their services

Someone shared the below with me

I am sure this will help our debate the subject matter
Ina Omo, Ekweremadu and the British Laws on Organ Harvesting

By TLA



May ‘ina omo’ not scald any of us is a famous Yoruba prayer. The Yoruba by that prayer acknowledges the extreme dilemma presented by a life and death situation involving a child such as the Ekweremadus might have been experiencing upon their child's health diagnosis. Our prayers should be with them and for the heavens to help resolve this matter to God's glory and the healing of the child.

That said, it is important to use this unfortunate circumstance as a teachable moment for Nigerians on the strict rules of the United Kingdom on organ transplants. Many Nigerians have rushed to share a letter purportedly written by Ike Ekweremadu to the UK Embassy to facilitate the travel of an organ donor for his child. The letter was written on the official letterhead of Ekweremadu as a Senator of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. Those sharing the letter hold the view that the letter is a full-disclosure instrument that ought to exonerate the Senator.

Well, that is purely using the Nigerian mind to explain British rules. More than any other factor, this particular letter may have been the original trigger that raised the initial red flags about the charge of organ harvesting against the Ekweremadus. The immediate likely reaction of the British authority upon receipt of that letter was to flag it and place the Ekweremandus on covert surveillance. The hospital and its key officials would also come under covert investigation by the British police. The Visa would be granted in the hope that the suspects’ presence on British soil would eliminate any scintilla of doubt on legal jurisdiction as well as offer an opportunity to save the potential victim.

The effective UK law on organ transplant is the Human Organ Transplant Act (HOTA) which was enacted by the British parliament in 1989 and came into force, with regulations, on 1 April 1990. Choudhry et al (2003) provide clear insight into that law. It has two key components. First, it creates a series of circumstantial criminal offenses, the combined effect of which is to prohibit commercial dealings in human organs, whether procured from cadavers (dead human remains) or live donors. Thus HOTA makes it an offense for an individual in the United Kingdom to make or receive payments for the supply of or for an offer to supply an organ for transplant into another person, whether in the United Kingdom or elsewhere in the world. The law also attaches criminal consequences for participating in the chain of distribution of human organs under pay-to-play circumstances.

It should be stated that some Nigerians have insinuated that an offense could only have been committed if the donor was considered a child or a minor in which case he or she would not have been able to give consent. They are correct that people under 18 (16 in Scotland) cannot legally give their informed consent proving that they agree to a medical procedure under British laws but they are wrong that this is the only ground for an offense on illegal organ transplant under British laws.

It is indeed instructive to mention that the UK HOTA law itself came into being as a result of the exploitation of Turkish youths regardless of their legal age by wealthy and highly-placed individuals who coerced them to 'donate' their organs in an illegal organ harvesting and organ sales epidemic that gripped the UK in the 80s. This is why in the HOTA law for example; it is an offense to act as a broker who negotiates the sale of an organ among other serious infractions. The European Union Report on Trafficking in Human Organs (2015) produced by the Policy Department, Directorate-General for External Policies states that “the commercial trade in human organs, including trafficking in persons for organ removal, has developed into a global problem”.

Also, HOTA focuses on live organ donations and generally makes it an offense either to remove an organ from a living donor or to transplant an organ from a living donor into another person unless the recipient and donor are genetically related. The Act provides a list of persons to whom an individual is deemed to be genetically related. This includes biological parents, children, siblings (including half-siblings), nephews, and nieces.

HOTA however authorizes the UK Secretary of State to create an exception to the ban on unrelated live organ donation through regulations. Such an exception is created by the Unrelated Live Transplant Regulatory Authority (ULTRA) which lifts the prohibition against unrelated living donation under certain conditions. The most important of such conditions are that (a) no payment has been or will be made, and (b) the donor’s consent was not obtained by coercion or the offer of an inducement. The regulation also empowers ULTRA with the task of ensuring that these conditions have been complied with in each case of unrelated live organ donation. If ULTRA is not satisfied that these conditions have been met, the donation cannot take place.

The implication of this is that organ donation in the UK typically operates on a level playing ground regardless of the status (economic, position, etc) of the individual. While this does not eliminate the right of persons who specifically aim to donate organs to specific individuals, the UK authority must be certain that those persons have not been coerced, forced, or induced with money or other benefits or material promises or physical and psychological threats, etc under any circumstance.

This is why it would be a culture shock and an alarm bell if any UK official, especially a British High Commissioner were to receive a letter on the official letterhead of a UK cabinet minister or parliamentarian to the effect that the person was sponsoring an organ donor’s visa application. If such a letter could raise a red flag coming from a British official, it would trigger a tsunami-grade alarm coming from a Senator in Nigeria - a country with a notorious international reputation for ritual killings with missing body parts, an unprecedented records of black market human organ trade, and an epidemic of unresolved murders and missing persons.

What can save the Ekweremadus currently is if there is no evidence that the donor or his family were compensated in any form. If it is established that money was not involved and that the person concerned is of legal age and sound mind and had simply opted to donate his organ to save a life, then the Ekweremadu may even get an apology from the British authority.



References

United Kingdom Human Organ Transplants Act (1989) https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1989/31/enacted#:~:text=An%20Act%20to%20prohibit%20commercial,purposes%20connected%20with%20those%20matters

Choudhry S, Daar AS, Radcliffe Richards J, et al Unrelated living organ donation: ULTRA needs to goJournal of Medical Ethics 2003;29:169-170.

“Making decisions” paragraphs 22 to 33, 0–18 years: guidance for all doctors (2007): in https://www.gmc-uk.org/outcomes-legislation

European Union Report on Trafficking in Human Organs by the Policy Department, Directorate-General for External Policies (2015) https://www.europarl.europa.eu/RegData/etudes/STUD/2015/549055/EXPO_STU(2015)549055_EN.pdf

who send nigeria immigration service to comment ? na politics dem dey play but who sent them is the question.
uk can query nigeria immigration officially for the boy's age.

ussv:
I thought Nigerian Immigration Service has already come out to say the boy is 21 years old and they followed due process in issuing him Nigerian Passport ?

frog12:
are you telling us nigeria hospital mess up?

CheapHomes1:


“After conducting various medical tests, the Royal Free Hospital in London decided that the said David Nwamini Ukpo was not a suitable donor because his kidney is not compatible with that of Sonia Ekweremadu"

Shows that no test was done in Nigeria

There's not a chance in the world that they would pay for such a trip to the UK without first testing the compatibility of the boy's kidney first in Nigeria.


Any hospital can mess things up, Nigeria or overseas. This wouldnt be the first time we would hear of a test being positive the first time and showing negative on second check. Even after all prior tests may have confirmed compatibility, the recipient's body may still reject an organ. These things arent 100% efficient.

Incredible, the 8 of July it is. At least its not like Nigeria, where people are brainwashed to love their oppressor's, and defend those who have power to do evil things, but they burn a common thief, who steals out of frustration or neglect.

Very wicked set of people, with no values for others but themselves and what they can abuse.

medolab90:


He has done nothing wrong and he was arrested and to be charged to court? You think everywhere is like Nigeria where you get arrested with no evidence abi

We Will all be here by July 8 or whenever he will face his fate

pretydiva:

So you actually believe this co.ck and bull story? Is he related to the senator that he promised to offer him job in the UK just like that? Na so dem dey pick person for street, and offer him job in the UK? The guy played a smart one on them

don't worry the court will determine that.the ekweremadus were trying to be smart as well.according to another version.wn the donor didn't match with that of her daughter ,were they not trying to send him back to Nigeria.that is a bad move as well.they could have jus help the guy no matter wat not sending him back home to Nigeria to come continue suffering.so the guy don't wanna suffer too so he designed a way out for himself and family.all of them will have their days in court my Chief

No selling of kidney in the UK period

toujurs:
May God punish you, where ever you are. Animal .. doesn't ekweremadu have other children to sacrifice their kidney why an helpless boy, because the boy is poor. , You are evil .. i pray ekweremadu gets detained for life in the u.k, thank God this is happening in the u k and not in nigeria, the case would have been squashed underneath the carpet. .

How are you sure he agreed? Don't type shit here, this is Nigeria, and Nigerians lie alot to protect themselves.. especially politicians

guy best reply God bless you the fool no get sense

I pray that these Oyinbos believe all documents coming from Nigeria..

obailala:
I dont think there's any law in Nigeria against paying for organ donation. I doubt the senator can be convicted in the UK for an action which happened in Nigeria and which doesnt break any Nigerian laws.

The only crime of the senator is claiming to have gotten consent from an alleged minor. If it's proven by any means (be it scientific or through documentation) that the boy isnt a minor, that's the end of the case. Even if it's proven that the boy is a minor, the senator with a good defense team can easily free himself by claiming he didnt know the boy was a minor; afterall all his documents proved he was 21

I would actually want to believe they would still put a hold on him if it is confirmed that there was material inducement in any part of the world. Its just like money laundry, u still money anywhere in the world and bring it to western world...kmo dem go collect am find charge give u send u go jail.


I pray for all

The fear of returning to the Nigeria of buhari instead of a better life in UK should the kidney test match with the required made this boy to take such wicked action.

Now he will surely return to the same Nigeria + hated from millions who heard the story.

How will he be able to sleep well at home if at all he didn't go to jail?

Idiotseverywher:
. But the guy agreed to donate his own, was he forced to. I'd he tgr first person to ever agreed to do do? Why atr you people being so sentiment, pray that God never punish human beings because of our behavior and wickedness

I doubt the guy was fully informed of what he was going to do. He was deceived, hence the present fiasco.

There's a village in Nepal where a good chunk of the villagers have sold their kidneys for peanuts - about $500. They were told their kidneys would grow back and that they should not worry

At the hospital, he was asked a series of questions if he understood fully the implications of the operation. It was from there, he told his own side of the story.

If all information tendered here is true, Ekwerenmadu as a caring parent is never guilty in this case; NIN and other agency should do fast to produce true copy to that effect so he can defend himself or are these agencies waiting for order from UK court before issuing those true copies.

The donor is the problem and greedy lazy guy here. Perhaps, he already had plans on what to do with big money if his kidney is found compactiple, he wants to cash out and leave big, but unfortunately, his kidney was not compactiple; now as plan B, he wants to remain in UK because he wasn't expecting short return back to Nigeria. He was of age and was never forced to donate it. What happened to Ekwerenmadu is what can happen to anybody unexpectedly; they never had bad motive or intention.

May Holy Spirit keeps consoling you during this unexpected travail this greedy guy has put you. Healing hand of God through Christ Jesus will perform miracle in the life of his daughter, Sonia. Agencies concerned should hasty up to issue necessary information so Ekwerenmadu can defend himself

BigIyanga:

Typical Naija oppressor mentality. The issue is not about age.
Per 1989 UK Law-HOTA, Live organ donor and recipient must be genetically related. Is the boy related to the Ekweremadus?
It’s also illegal to induce, coerce, manipulate or offer monetary compensation to donors.
Ignorant and arrogant leaders worshiped by ignorant followers like you.

What a shame.

Methinks you're silly for misquoting the law.

My question is just like blood banks, are there no kidney banks?

GloriousGbola:
The poverty leaders like ekeremadu inflicted on this society is why Nigeriana cannot see anything wrong with their exploitation.

So many people here are willing to serve as spare parts for a corrupt political elite who made them poor and desperate

Unfortunately for ekeremadu, he chose to pull off his nonsense in a nation that assigns value to every human being, not just the wealthy elite

He can pull all the stunts, bribe all the bloggers, get support from all the impoverished citizenry, but he is not getting away with this.

Gbamsulotely

She not he

mycar:
He should add some Nairaland members in the lawsuit too

"Former Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu, and his wife, Beatrice, have sued the National Identity Management Commission (NIMC) and others over the controversy surrounding David Ukpo’s real age."

Ike Ekweremadu lawsuit is an attempt to divert attention of the public from the real crime here: human trafficking of minor to harvest his organ. The UK court has the authority in this case, Not Nigerian court. So, Judge Iyang should immediately dismiss Senator Ike Ekweremadu application because it constitutes foreign interference.

I will further recommend 50 years imprisonments for each of the defendants bordering on extortion plot to traffic a minor for the purposes of harvesting his organ.

Ekeremadu thought he could act like an elite Nigerian and game the process in the UK. There are people in thr UK with kidney issues. And they are on a waiting list

There are all sorts of people with all sorts of medical challenges who simply have to wait

But ekeremadu forgot he was in the UK, and decided to pull off the Nigerian elite move of gaming the system with out any consequences.

Wanting to eat his cake an have it. Let his daughter have the operation in a world class UK hospital, but according to his own rules.

Arrogant bastard.

Nonsense you better get yourself a good attorney cos if the boy said his age is 15, he is 15 nani.

Senator Ekweremadu and wife are wicked set of people, is not the boys fault that his kidney did not match. For the boy to have mind to donate his kidney to his daughter is enough to help that boy.
Do you know what it means to donate kidney?
Ekweremadu and wife are ingrates, They are supposed to allow the guy to stay in Uk.
Nigerians are wicked,does he and his wife not have kidney to donate to there daughter?
They have already taken him to that place,they should leave him there.
Our leaders are wicked people, a boy that had the mind to give his kidney to his daughter,and save her life, is the person he cant allow to be in Uk?
Nigeria leaders are devils, only for the sacrifice he decided to do,is enough for Ekweremadu to adopt him as his son.

They should jail Ekweremadu and wife,they are ingrates and wicked people.

British government is holding them because of their wickedness.

Ekweremadu can sponsor that boy education ,
I never knew the kidney did not match, i thought is a lie, he does not value the sacrifice that boy is about to make.