I want to remain in UK..I don’t want to return to Nigeria, they will kill me–David Nwamini, the kidney donor
Embattled kidney donor and the victim at the centre of Senator Ike Ekweremadu’s organ harvesting trafficking saga David Nwamini, has pleaded to remain and work in the UK, expressing fear that “they could arrest me or kill me in Nigeria.”
Nwamini’s impact statement was read in court on Friday at the sentencing where the former Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu, his wife, Beatrice and the doctor-middleman, Obinna Obeta, were sentenced to 10 years and 8 months, 4 years and six months, and 10 years imprisonment respectively.
Ekweremadu and his cohorts were convicted of organ trafficking at the Old Bailey Court, UK. They were also found guilty of conspiring to arrange the travel of the victim with a view to exploiting him for his body part.
Nwamini had told the UK court that he was approached with an opportunity to work in the UK, which he had always dreamed of but never thought would happen.
He said, “He (Dr Obina Obeta) did not tell me he brought me here for this reason. He did not tell me anything about this.“I would have not agreed to any of this. My body is not for sale.
“I worry for my safety in Nigeria. Those people can do anything. I think they could arrest me or kill me in Nigeria.
“My plan now is to work and to get an education and to play football,” David said, adding that he does not want to claim compensation from the “bad people” as it would be “cursed and bad luck”.
The victim further said that someone visited his father in Nigeria and asked the father to get him to drop the case.
A twist to this whole kidney donor saga is that Senator Ekweremadu confessed giving the sun of N4.5 million to his doctor cum middle man Obinna Obeta for David but he turned around and gave the boy just N270,000.
Meanwhile Ekweremadu’s daughter Sonia who is at the centre of all this has cried out in regret that she is the reason of his parents ordeal in prison just because they want to save her life.
