Sonia Ekweremadu, daughter of the former Deputy Senate President Ike Ekweremadu, has spoken out regarding her parents’ recent jail sentences handed down by UK authorities and the family’s next move.
In an interview with BBC News, Sonia acknowledged the conviction but disagreed with the judgement. She admitted to having a biased perspective as their daughter. She said: “I understand the conviction, however, I personally disagree with it. “However that is from a bias perspective as their daughter, I will obviously always back my parents” .Sonia denied any involvement in securing a kidney donor for her medical condition, Nephrotic Syndrome. She stated that her parents took care of everything regarding the medical aspect of her ailment. Currently, she is undergoing dialysis.
Regarding the future, Sonia stated that the family needs to move on now that the law has taken its course.
“However, the law has taken its course, we just need to move on as one family”. Justice Jeremy Johnson held that the actions of the lawmaker was serious and amounted to a form of slavery because he was wealthy but leveraged on it to arrange the travel of a lad that could not travel from Lagos to Abuja.
Ekweremadu was handed a sentence of nine years and eight months for organ harvesting. His wife, Beatrice got four years and six months, while their doctor, Obinna Obeta, was sentenced to ten years Imprisonment; his medical licence was also withdrawn for the same offence.
Sonia was cleared of the same charge.