Nigeria’s former Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu serving his jail term in the United Kingdom for conspiring with intent to exploit a 15-year-old boy for kidney exploit, has lost his mother-in-law, Mrs. Monica Okah in Nigeria.
Ekweremadu was sentence of nine years and eight months after being found guilty of the crime in July 2022 in the United Kingdom.
Chairman Aninri Local Government Area, Prince Ugochukwu Nwanjoku, confirmed the death of Mrs Okah when he paid a condolence visit to the bereaved family of the ex-Deputy President.
The local government boss, Nwanjoku was received by Ike Ekweremadu’s wife, Mrs Nwanneka Ekweremadu during the visit their residence in Aninri Local Government Area.
Nwanjoku, in a condolence message, stated: “I… on behalf of my family, the government and good people of Aninri LGA, console with Ekweremadu family over this great loss, while also praying that God Almighty grant her soul eternal peace”.
“Today, I paid a condolence visit to Sen. Prof. Ike Ekweremadu, CFR, former three times Deputy President of the Nigerian Senate, as well as Speaker of ECOWAS parliament.
“I, therefore, on behalf of my family, the government and good people of Aninri LGA, console with Ekweremadu family over this great loss, while also praying that God almighty grant her soul eternal peace”, the LG chairman wrote in a tribute gleaned on social media TheNewspad.
The UK government had rejected a request by high-level Nigerian delegation led by Nigeria’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, Yusuf Maitama Tuggar, and the Attorney General and Minister of Justice, Lateef Fagbemi, to UK Ministry of Justice in London.
The requested the transfer Ike Ekweremadu, former Deputy Senate President, to Nigeria to compete his nine years and eight months jail sentence after being found guilty of the crime was rejected by the UK.
