The victim of modern day slavery and organ harvesting has pleaded with the government of the United Kingdom not to allow him go back to Nigeria.
His plea comes after former Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu, his wife Beatrice, and Doctor Obinna Obeta were convicted and sentenced by a court.
The 3 prominent Nigerians were accused of trafficking and conspiring to harvest the victim’s organ.
According to him, he is afraid of going back to Nigeria.
Ekweremadu was on Friday, May 5, sentenced to jail in the United Kingdom for 9 years, 8 months.
The 60-year-old Nigerian senator, his wife, and a medical doctor who worked as their middleman, Obinna Obeta were found guilty of conspiring to bring a street trader in Lagos to the UK for the purpose of harvesting his kidney for the use of the politician’s 25-year-old daughter, Sonia.
Ekweremadu’s wife Beatrice, 56, was handed 4 years, six months jail term, while the doctor involved in the case got a 10-year jail term with his medical licence suspended.
The victim who remains unnamed due to legal reasons maintained in his impact statement which was read in court on Friday that he was lured to the United Kingdom under the pretext of a job opportunity in the country.
He stated that he is the oldest of 7 siblings living in a home without electricity or running water in Lagos and was forced to become a street trader full time moving to the city to provide for his family when his father fell ill with a heart problem.
He sold mobile phone accessories from a wheelbarrow making at most £7 a day and as little as 50p, the statement in court according to Independence UK added.
According to the victim, he could not return to Nigeria because he worries about his safety. The victim claimed someone visited his father in Nigeria and asked him to get the victim, his son, to drop the case.
In his words, “I worry for my safety in Nigeria; those people can do anything. I think they could arrest me or kill me in Nigeria,” he added.
He told the police he did not want to claim compensation from the “bad people” as it would be “cursed and bad luck.”
