The father of Ukpo Nwamini David, the boy Senator Ike Ekweremadu took to the United Kingdom for a kidney transplant, has allegedly died of heartbreak yesterday after years without seeing his son.
Speaking with DAILY POST on Monday morning, one of the sons, Boniface Nwamini Ukpo, confirmed the death of his father and said they have not spoken with David since the incident happened in 2022.
According to him, “Yes, my father died yesterday (Sunday) afternoon by 12 p.m. It’s so sad that since the incident happened in 2022, we have not spoken with my brother, David Nwamini.”
“So, my father has been sick over the saga, and yesterday he finally died,” he told our reporter.
Recall that Senator Ike Ekweremadu, his wife, and his doctor were jailed by a London court for trafficking the trader from Lagos to the United Kingdom to illegally harvest his kidney for a transplant for their seriously ill daughter.
The UK’s Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) said in 2023 that Ike Ekweremadu had been sentenced to nine years and eight months in the UK’s first illegal organ-harvesting prosecution, while his wife Beatrice, 56, was sentenced to four years and six months.
Nigerian doctor Obinna Obeta, 51 – described by prosecutors as a middleman – was jailed for 10 years, the CPS said. All three were convicted in March 2023 of conspiring to arrange the travel of the boy in order to harvest his organs.
