The president of the group, Dr Bernard Oshi, made the appeal at a news conference on Friday in Abuja.
Oshi appealed to Tinubu and the incoming 10th National Assembly to look into the matter with a human face and prevail on the government of the United Kingdom to temper justice with mercy.
Similarly, he called on the members of the diplomatic corps, particularly those of the United Nations, the United Kingdom and the United States of America to come to the help of Ekweremadu.
According to him, the organisation, as a concerned institution, monitored with keen interest the sterling public and private service record of Ekweremadu as a lawyer, philanthropist, politician and patriot.
“Ekweremadu’s parental instinct to provide care for his sick daughter even at the distressing cost of having to seek a kidney donor is not the type of crime a man should be abandoned to face alone,” he said.
Oshi, used the news conference to congratulate President-elect Tinubu, the Vice President-Elect, Sen Kashim Shettima, all members of the National Assembly, governors and state assembly members, reelected or newly elected.
He commended President Muhammadu Buhari for his leadership and commitment to keeping the country united, particularly through the past difficult years.
“Our hope and prayer is for Nigeria to continue to witness peace and prosperity as we continue our democratic journey,” he said.
Oshi appealed to Tinubu and the incoming 10th National Assembly to look into the matter with a human face and prevail on the government of the United Kingdom to temper justice with mercy.
Similarly, he called on the members of the diplomatic corps, particularly those of the United Nations, the United Kingdom and the United States of America to come to the help of Ekweremadu.
According to him, the organisation, as a concerned institution, monitored with keen interest the sterling public and private service record of Ekweremadu as a lawyer, philanthropist, politician and patriot.
“Ekweremadu’s parental instinct to provide care for his sick daughter even at the distressing cost of having to seek a kidney donor is not the type of crime a man should be abandoned to face alone,” he said.
Oshi, used the news conference to congratulate President-elect Tinubu, the Vice President-Elect, Sen Kashim Shettima, all members of the National Assembly, governors and state assembly members, reelected or newly elected.
He commended President Muhammadu Buhari for his leadership and commitment to keeping the country united, particularly through the past difficult years.
“Our hope and prayer is for Nigeria to continue to witness peace and prosperity as we continue our democratic journey,” he said.
Ekweremadu and his wife, Beatrice, were convicted by the United Kingdom Central Criminal Court, London, for organ harvesting.
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ReplyDeleteReally?
ReplyDeleteThere are consequences in civilized countries. You do the crime,donthe time. Period.
We are used to begging for leniency.. ndi ara
Assssin I’m trying to understand how and why the begging. He commuted an International offense and crime. Na wa for this Nigerian/African mentality. So they are indirectly turning a blind eye on what he did. Biko they begging is for what? The daughter has caregivers, it’s not like he is the one taking care of her. Like some people have twisted mindset. Someone has/is stealing from you to take care of his family and live a better life while you are left to rot and you are scurrying around seeking for leniency on him. Are we okay, REALLY???????
DeleteSane/wicked Nigerians gathered themselves together to be pleading for heartless Nigerian politician? Kai, thank God this thing didn't happen in Nigeria. Gosh! People actually have sympathy for a Nigerian politicians? Wonderful!
ReplyDeleteYou people that went begging should leave this man and the UK authorities alone, Concentrate on the sick girl and seek solution for her by taking her to another country(India have good hospitals and available donors if you are willing to pay) for quick transplant, cause if she's on a waiting list in the UK with this kind of issue the dad is facing,they nor send her even if she dies, they must see that justice is carried out on the father.
ReplyDeleteI only have pity for the girl, this thing is prolonging her treatment
My sister, the problem is none of HER OWN RELATIVES OR SIBLINGS ARE WILLING TO DONATE. That is the only problem she has right now.
DeleteThey should have gone to India in the 1st place. I don't know why they even tried UK. They are very strict
DeleteAnon 12:17, how do you know her relatives or siblings are a match? India is well known for harvesting organs so I understand their fears. May God provide a donor for her.
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DeleteIt came out during the trail, that the genetic condition the family told us that she had, was a complete LIE. A medical practitioner testified to this.
It is safe to say that it is a self-inflicted ailment, as a result of bleaching. I've seen her before and after pix. She literally went from a Genevieve to Mona Lisa complexion.
After seeing her pix + how she lied about it being genetic + how she and her dad were talking about human beings like non-living things, in their text exchange...I no longer have the sympathy I once had for her!
Exercise in futility.
ReplyDeleteOga carry cross alone
ReplyDeleteJagaban no intervene ànything o..
ReplyDeleteShebi he follow for people wey scatter our obodo Nigeria right? Let them teach him and his fellow polithieficains a very big lesson nonsense.
Na just dey daughter i pity.
Thank you oooooo
DeleteI pity his sick daughter in all that is happening to him .
ReplyDeleteSo all the sick and dying ppl in Nigeria, some who are dying for simple want of 10£ to buy medicine, who is coming out to speak on their behalf? Who is speaking up for the devastating state of some of these hospitals? Imagine, what is fully under their jurisdiction they are not fighting for, it is what is under another country’s jurisdiction they want to fight for.
ReplyDeleteI feel bad for the young woman, I do not wish illness on anyone. But this entire case shows how class, status, and connections will interplay for someone to get an organ to give them the privilege of life, while others with no such connections must die. If a worm has purpose in their life on this earth, then why a poor individual with no family name doesn’t? Had everything gone as they had hoped, not one Nigerian would know a thing, we would only hear how ‘God did it’ and ‘prayer and faith move mountains’ . Some other parents with there sick child would be starving themselves on dry fasting and prayer hoping for their own miracle by tapping in, then they will end up questioning God when the miracle did not happen for them like it did for these folks. May God continue to expose every ounce of hypocrisy and evil everywhere.
Bless you
DeleteDon't mind the idiots.
DeleteI worked around government and private hospitals in Nigeria for years and saw how people died because they couldn't pay as little as 2k for medications or even initial admission in hospital, people legit die because they presented at the hospital too late (all tied to money problems), are those lives now less important than ekweremadu's child's life?
I no pity anybody, make dem jail anyone wey get hand for this nonsense we are facing in Nigeria, I simply do not care!!
I don't understand this their plea, pleasing for someone that committed a crime?
DeleteChoi, anon 13:21 you finish talk.
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DeleteThank you for this comment!
The fact that there are even BVs saying they should have just gone to India, since they have organs readily available to be harvested, shows that people are truly not ready for the "system that works" that they're always praying for!
How is that even justice? The case should be appealed and the accused granted bail. The boy changed his mind after he got to the UK, which is probably what he really wanted. All he needed to do was inform the Ekweremadus of his change of mind, but he didn't want to do that because that would mean going back to Nigeria. He decided to lie instead. He's evil.
ReplyDeleteThis is one of the effects of not managing our image as a country properly. This boy and many Nigerians assume these countries are eldorado and will do almost anything to get there and stay there.
To go and beg WHO??? Nigerian elite are not serious ooo. Jagaban no beg anything let him carry his cross! They should look for money and help his daughter survive this kidney disease! God bless you anon@13:21 and Kidjo for your comments👍
ReplyDeleteDey play, just dey play.. the millions of Nigerians that have been dying from lack of health care, no be person born them??? They should have gone about it the right way.
ReplyDeleteIf na niaja this one for happen nothing will happen to him but this is a saner clime.
You do the crime, you do the time. Going to beg them, they go just dey look una like "are these people for real"?
If they did the needful with their position and money, we should have functional hospitals here that can handle that. Thousand die daily from same ailment because they cannot afford the treatment.
May God have mercy on their daughter and heal her.
Anakogheli.. becos it's not their own child...they manipulated the small boy with money nd think everything will be fine.
ReplyDeleteIgbo Indigenes Without Border? Do you need a soothsayer to know that it is a one-man show? Let that wicked and covetous Ekweremadu rot in jail. 20 years should be convenient
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