Mohammed Oluwatimileyin Taoheed reports,
TrackNews Nigeria have learnt that the doctor who was supposed to do the kidney transplant on former Deputy Senate President IKe Ekweremadu’s daughter did not accept to do it because the age of the 15-year-old donor was listed as 41 on his passport.
Recall that our correspondent, Mr. Taoheed, had earlier reported, how Ekweremadu and his spouse got arrested for trafficking a 15-year-old boy from Nigeria to London with the motive of harvesting his kidney for their daughter who has been on dialysis for a while and needs a kidney urgently.
As alleged by the Daily Mail, a British media house, the doctor at the Royal Free in Camden smelt a rat about if the alleged victim was know of donation of the kidney and whether he was 41 as his passport claimed.
The ’15-year-old’ boy was given the passport of a 41-year-old in order to get into the UK, but did not know he was there to donate a kidney until he went for a hospital appointment in London, as heard by a court yesterday.
Prosecutor Damla Ayas put it to Uxbridge Magistrates Court yesterday that: ‘‘The victim was 15. In Nigeria, he was approached by both defendants. He was homeless on the streets of Lagos. They deceived him and promised him a better life in the UK. He was given a passport for a 41-year-old. The passport was illegally obtained by these defendants.
‘’He was provided with a medical travel visa saying the purpose of the travel was to provide medical treatment for the defendants’ daughter who was undergoing dialysis in relation to a number of health issues.
‘’It was premeditated, it was planned. Blood tests were obtained in Nigeria and he travelled to the UK in February this year.
‘’He was taken to several medical appointments in particular a medical appointment at the Royal Free Hospital and was spoken to by a consultant about the organ harvesting for a kidney transplant.
‘’The consultant was concerned about his actual age and was concerned he was not aware he was the donor of the kidney. He only found out that the purpose of his visit was for an organ transplant when he visited the hospital’’.
Mr. Taoheed says the teen is under the care of safeguarding authorities and the Metropolitan Police as at now as he gathered from UK officials.
