Beatrice Ekweremadu, the wife of the embattled Enugu Senator, Ike Ekweremadu, has been granted bail by a London court.
It was earlier reported that Mrs Beatrice was arrested alongside her husband Senator Ike Ekweremadu in June by the Metropolitan police for allegedly engaging in trafficking a 21-year-old for the purpose of organ harvesting.
According to the UK police, the Senator and the wife plotted to traffic 21-year-old David Ukpo from Nigeria to the United Kingdom to transplant his organs to their daughter who is battling with kidney failure.
The embattled Senator was charged with conspiracy to arrange or facilitate the travel of another person with a view to exploitation, namely organ harvesting, while the wife was charged with arranging or facilitating the travel of another person with a view to exploitation, between August 1 last year and May 5, under the Modern Slavery Act 2015.
Judge Richard Marks said: ‘The position is that I have granted bail to Beatrice subject to some fairly stringent conditions but I have refused bail to Ike.’
It was gathered that Senator Ike was denied bail and had remained in custody since July 7. Both of them are scheduled to appear at the Old Bailey court on August 4.
