Ekweremadu: Alleged victim escalates legal battle with senator in UK detention

David Ukpo, the alleged victim of organ harvesting by Senator Ike Ekweremadu and his wife, Beatrice, asked a federal high court in Abuja to set aside its July 1 order for the release of his bio-data for use in a London court.

Ekweremadu is facing trial for taking Ukpo who claims he’s underage to the UK to donate his kidney for the senator’s daughter in need of one.

Ukpo faulted the proceedings of the court that led to the issuance of the order.

He claimed that his fundamental rights to a fair hearing and personal privacy have been violated.

The National Identity Management Commission, NIMC, Comptroller General, Nigeria Immigration Service, Stanbic IBTC Bank, United Bank for Africa, UBA, and Nigeria Inter-bank Settlement System.

According to him, neither he nor the Attorney General of the Federation, AGF, as Chief Law Officer of the Federation, was made a party in the suit.

His lawyer Bamidele Igbinedion prayed Justice Inyang Eden Ekwo to reverse the order.

Ukpo prayed the court to restrain the defendants, their agents, privies, staff, and workers from releasing any information concerning him to Ekweremadu and his wife for their defense in the London court.

The London police who first claimed Ukpo is a minor and orphan has dropped that aspect of te allegation when biometric evidence confirm Ukpo’s age as 21, and his parents living in Ebonyi.