{"id":2776,"date":"2022-07-05T15:07:10","date_gmt":"2022-07-05T15:07:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/?p=2776"},"modified":"2022-07-05T16:37:39","modified_gmt":"2022-07-05T16:37:39","slug":"national-assembly-rallies-support-for-ekweremadu-calls-for-fgs-support","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/national-assembly-rallies-support-for-ekweremadu-calls-for-fgs-support\/","title":{"rendered":"National Assembly Rallies Support for Ekweremadu, Calls for FG\u2019s Support"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Both the Senate and House of Representatives have\nrallied round in support of former Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu, who\nis also a serving Senator. Senator Ekweremadu and his wife Beatrice were\narrested and remanded by the London Metropolitan Police on 23<sup>rd<\/sup> June\n2022. They were charged with offences bordering on trafficking a minor for the purpose\nof organ harvesting, contrary to the UK\u2019s Modern Slavery Act. The couple first\nappeared before the UK Magistrate court in Uxbridge on Thursday, 30<sup>th<\/sup>\nJune, and are currently being held without bail. The case comes up next on 7<sup>th<\/sup>\nJuly 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Following deliberations of the Senate on the trial of Senator Ike Ekweremadu at a closed-door on Wednesday, 29<sup>th<\/sup> June 2022, it was resolved that a delegation from the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Senate led by Senator Adamu Bulkachuwa (APC; Bauchi) will be in the UK, to see the couple. The delegation was also directed to engage with the British High Commission to receive more details on the case. In addition, President of the Senate, Senator Ahmad Lawan urged Federal government institutions to do what they can to ensure that justice prevails. Speaker of the House of Representatives, Rt. Hon. Femi Gbajabiamila had also issued a statement, expressing solidarity with Senator Ike Ekweremadu and called on the Nigerian High Commission in London and the Federal Government to offer every support to Senator Ekweremadu. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Facts unravelling since the matter began show that the\nEkweremadus were making efforts to provide medical assistance to their daughter\nwho needs kidney transplant, and had procured a willing donor from Nigeria to\ngo to the UK for the medical procedure. Facts emanating from the process of transporting\nthe said donor to the UK show that Ekweremadu had written in support of the\nsaid donor\u2019s visa application, with reports clearly showing that the donor is\nnot a minor as his passport indicates that he is at least 21 years old. The\ncase has attracted a lot of interest and media publicity in Nigeria. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Senator Ekweremadu is a long standing legislator and\nhas played key roles in the process of Constitution amendment as Chairman of\nthe Senate ad-hoc Committee on Constitution Review for unprecedented three\nterms of 12 years. His leadership of the National Assembly Constitution\namendment efforts produced significant results. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Both the Senate and House of Representatives have rallied round in support of former Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu, who is also a serving Senator. Senator Ekweremadu and his wife Beatrice were arrested and remanded by the London Metropolitan Police on 23rd June 2022. They were charged with offences bordering on trafficking a minor for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2768,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2776","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2776"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2776\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2788,"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2776\/revisions\/2788"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}