You're not addicted to prostitutes, your just bored. If you travel commot for Naija go like UK, within 6 month dat your addiction go dissolve.

He was banned because he's homeless and using the gym as bathroom. Pays 29 pounds every month is instead of a rent

Bukayosakes:
Where do these politicians get the strength from. He was in Abeokuta, addressed an impromptu rally yet had a meeting well into the night.

I hope I have this amount of energy when I am his age.

Their strength is gotten from the luxury of our commonwealth and patrimony.

So na Obi get Nigeria for mind? Please enough. Everybody should vote for who dey like, all the politicians are the same including Obi!

continentalceo:
It's sad how our politicians are shamelessly all
About their personal interest. All these people are evil. They don't care about the common Nigerian. Please vote obi for a better Nigeria.

1stGenAmerican:


America is in the mud? Well, I’m about to walk into Starbucks to get a refreshment while my car charges. Did NEPA take your light? When was the last time you had 3 square meals? Do you have a plan for all the shortages coming your way? Will Putin that you praise send help?
Can you show your audience the mud that you say America is in? It looks sunny and bright on my end. Let’s see your surroundings!
No? Shame won’t allow you to? Then move on and stop derailing the discussion with your insanity.

Somehow, Nigerians are the problem of Nigeria. They vote someone like Tinubu or Atiku or Peter Obi to be president and blame those living and working abroad, they sell their votes and call those living abroad scam. It is such a pity, sometimes when I read how some of our brothers now reason, I'm scared of coming back home anytime soon. Because I worry they may eat me alive.

jumobi1:


It is. “Beyond a reasonable doubt” comes into play when trying to convict but before you can convict you must charge. If the “beyond a reasonable doubt” standard was required to charge then we won’t need trials or plea deals because the accused would already be found guilty. If there’s probable cause to believe a crime occurred then prosecutors/grand jury can charge/indict.

I agree with your logic. But in climes like the UK and the US, the evidence amassed by the prosecution must be of such nature that will be able to meet the standard of proof in a criminal case. Otherwise, it will be regarded as a waste of tax payers money. That is why, most cases in the UK end at the investigation stage.
However, I agree that probable cause can be sufficient to charge a person but the prosecution must also be ready to meet the standard required by law.
With regard to not needing trials or taking pleas, it is a matter of constitutional right that a person be put to trial before a court of competent jurisdiction. So even if you see someone killing a person, record his video etc, he will still be tried despite all the evidence.

pappilo:


slowpoke. Reasonable suspicion/probable cause to arrest is what I wrote in answer to the quacks claim that in sane climes they do not arrest on mere alleagtions.

Learn to read, comprehend and engage your brain before opening your mouth

Lol, I'm embarrassed.

AkaraAndBread:


My dear, I am a doctor. Donating an organ to someone does not necessarily mean your life is ruined.

There are many people with one eye, one leg, one functional lung, one functional testicle (and still able to father children), one functional ovary (and still able to give birth) etc. living perfectly normal lives.

There are even people born with a solitary horse-shoe shaped kidney living perfectly normal lives. Their renal function tests may even be better than yours or mine (we that both have two...I am assuming you have two )

With any paired organ or tissue it is better to have both in case you develop a problem with one.

A one eyed man can still see, but if something should happen to that remaining eye that he has then he would then be totally blind.

You can donate a kidney and still live a normal life. The only caveat there is that if your solitary kidney should develop problems, then you have nothing to fall back on.

That is why people with ONLY ONE KIDNEY for whatever reason (after nephrectomy, after donation, degenerative disease of a single kidney etc) SHOULD ALWAYS BE ON FOLLOW UP WITH A NEPHROLOGIST.

They are not sick, but they are at a higher risk of renal failure compared with someone with 2 kidneys. Things usually go wrong when the donor is not regular with his appointments or if there is a problem with the solitary kidney it is discovers late.

People are naturally selfish so they will always be sceptical when it comes to organ donation.

Therefore, PLEASE, if you have a loved one who needs a kidney and tests show that your renal function is good/excellent don't be hesitant to lend a helping hand. You are saving someone's life.

You may be putting yourself at risk but these risks can be minimized if proper follow up is done after the donation. Mind you, the follow up is for the rest of your life.

PS: Donating an organ should be on ones volition. Not under duress, deception or coercion.

It is unethical (and in some countries illegal) to purchase one (that is where the crime of exploitation and organ harvesting comes in).

Thank you for this. It should also be known that you can voluntarily' donate your organs.

1stGenAmerican:


Do you think you’re smarter than British officials? Do you really think that they haven’t already performed an MRI and dental exams? But no matter how old he is, the crime they are being charged with is not age specific.

I’ve seen more than a few altered Nigerian passports. There is even a moniker on Nairaland who offers them.

God bless you. You're indeed an American Lawyer. I'm a solicitor in the UK and I definitely know the process. The age of the child is not in contention for both offences of Modern Day Slavery and Harvesting of Human Organ. The age matters only for the purpose of safeguarding the victim in question.

1stGenAmerican:


Yes. They’re passing around a passport when the identity of the boy hasn’t been released by the British authorities.

I laugh in Queens English.

satandeterrible:

You assumption or concession is immaterial to the facts on ground.
In my rejoinder, I stated clearly that the most they could charge him for is ATTEMPT to financially induce.

Under the law, attempted crime and committing the actual crime are two different offences with different gravities.

The offence is an Inchoate offence in the first place. So whether or not they attempt or prepare, they have committed a criminal offence based on the available facts. And based on your assumption that selling your organ is not a criminal offence in Nigeria. You're yet to provide the Law that permits the sale of organs.

pappilo:


You are definitely not a lawyer, maybe a tea lady in a low level fim in some backwater US city. You only need reasonable suspicion /probable cause to arrest. These are very low bars. Millions of arrests are carried out based on mere allegations.

Oga, it will be a waste of tax payers money and abuse of power and state resources to charge a person to court based of probable cause in a criminal case.
UK is not Nigeria o. Nobody is talking of arrest here, we are talking of prosecution. The case has gone beyond arrest.

pappilo:


You are definitely not a lawyer, maybe a tea lady in a low level fim in some backwater US city. You only need reasonable suspicion /probable cause to arrest. These are very low bars. Millions of arrests are carried out based on mere allegations.

Probable Cause is not enough to charge a person to court (it may be enough to commence investigation) for a criminal case where the standard is proof beyond reasonable doubt.
No you no Sabi criminal law.

satandeterrible:

The second case is no case at all.
If the boy was paid in Nigeria, then the UK has no jurisdiction to prosecute Elweremmadu.
Paying for organ donation is not illegal in Nigeria.
So the whole substratum of the case has been demolished. It is therefore non sequitur to talk about financial inducement.

Assuming without conceding that payment for organ donation is not illegal in Nigeria, it becomes illegal in the UK if that payment that was made induced the boy into accepting to carry out the procedure in the UK. In other words the offense of Modern Day Slavery would have been committed.

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.

I'm not sure you read the law well yourself because there's nowhere in the law that says someone can donate their organs if they're not genetically related

Miyachi:

What part of the test can't be done in Nigeria, please explain? Is it the blood typing or tissue typing or PRA test that can't be done in Nigeria?

It might surprise you to know that kidney transplant procedures are being done in Nigeria.

It's their daughter so they don't want her to die in a Nigerian hospital they refused to equip.
God will show himself before 2023

hammer567:



THE BOY IS NOT A HERO.


HE SHOULD NEVER HAVE AGREED TO SUCH IN THE FIRST PLACE, IF HE WAS A GOOD BOY.


SO, GET OUT WITH YOUR ANALYSIS.

Who's calling the boy a hero? Now it's the boy's fault. Lol.
Next time, they should use their family member to avoid this kind of situation.

This is the best analysis I can give about this case.

The Legal Thing was done before travel

Before they all travelled to the UK for the procedure, everything was fine. Visas were approved and all the normal procedure was done by the Ekweremadus. That is why no one was denied visa and no one was refused entry into the UK including the boy.

The problem surfaces

The problem started when the doctor that was to carry out the procedure asked the donor how old he (standard procedure) and the boy innocently told them his real age because he has no single knowledge of the entire visa process. His own was that "we wan carry you go UK."

The doctor had to suspend the procedure immediately and request that another donor be brought in as it would be unethical for him to continue with the procedure.

The Ekweremadus became desperate

The Ekweremadus now trying to beat time got another tip that there was a willing donor in Turkey who would volunteer (I mean be paid) to donate, they headed for Turkey but were accustomed at Heathrow after the Met Police had been tipped of a possible Organ Harvesting motive.

The Boy was also Smart.

After the boy was rejected, he was asked to go back to those who brought him, but instead of pampering him till he gets to Naija, they started maltreating him, na so bobo go police station go report himself o. Kasala come burst!

sukar886:
That guy don pass 15years,the guy no one come back again, that the bitter truth

If na you, you go one come back to Naija with one Kidney?

Islandlady:
Hmm I pity those that said African charm don't work See as charm brought a woman all the way from a Faraway country like America unconsciously!

That guy needs to be Arrested toh

It wasn't charm, that's how white women do, after they sleep with you, they shout rape. The only difference is that this time, it happened in Nigeria where they won't arrest the guy immediately.

Kalu is thinking like an ex-convict; kiri-kiri ideology

His spinal cord is now healed miraculously after he's been released.

Why is Tinubu the only one wearing a mask? Everyone avoided him like a plague. His last campaign speech is an exposure of his greed, desperation and the level of regard he has for Buhari.
He knew it was the last straw that shattered the camel's back. Now he needs to play catch-up and the southwest elders are scheming up how to bring back him glory. Last night's meeting was not about consensus, it was about how to beg Buhari on behalf of Tinubu using Osinbajo.

olaboy33:
That's Gbenga Daniel, Atiku's last campaign manager.

He quitted PDP after Atiku's loss saying he was leaving partisan politics.

Today, he is an APC senatorial candidate in Ogun state.

DON'T KILL YOURSELF FOR ANY POLITICIAN!

Nigerialabalaba:

omo ibo, una don jinx d man with una badluck.

PYO don lose since las week wen nobody for hin camp win APC senate or hor seat tickets for d whole SW. almost 100% come from Tinubu camp. na because u omo ibo miscreants on nl be olodos una no see d connection.

e been dey tink say Buhari go do annointing service yesterday but buhari sabi say pyo na featherweight.

If them see Tinubu for North now na stone dem go stone am over cry-cry baby wey him call Buhari. It is obvious he has now lost whatever is left of his popularity in the North.

The outburst made him lose all the Northern Delegates this gave Buhari the assurance thereby throwing the contest open

Tinubu seems to have lost out. He seems too distant now.

Very serious business

Doesn't look good for Osinbajo. But let's see how it all ends

Hmm

God1000:
It is unfortunate that one man will decide who becomes the party's flag bearer

It is not unfortunate. It's party politics. Nigerians can thereafter choose whom they want.

The Chronicle of the Dreamer. Do you have an idea of what is going on in Abuja today? By 10pm tonight, you will hear the news.