{"id":240269,"date":"2026-01-25T14:55:14","date_gmt":"2026-01-25T14:55:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/ekweremadus-wife-returns-to-nigeria-after-serving-a-jail-term-in-uk-prison\/"},"modified":"2026-01-25T14:55:14","modified_gmt":"2026-01-25T14:55:14","slug":"ekweremadus-wife-returns-to-nigeria-after-serving-a-jail-term-in-uk-prison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/ekweremadus-wife-returns-to-nigeria-after-serving-a-jail-term-in-uk-prison\/","title":{"rendered":"Ekweremadu\u2019s wife returns to Nigeria after serving a jail term in UK prison"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Beatrice, the wife of a former deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu has returned to Nigeria, two years after serving a jail term in a prison in the United Kingdom.<\/span><\/p>\n

The former lawmaker\u2019s wife was convicted alongside her husband over her role in an organ harvesting conspiracy.<\/span><\/p>\n

While her husband got a nine-year and eight-month sentence as the principal driver in the matter, Beatrice was sentenced to four years and six months for facilitating the travel plans for Ukpo David, a 21-year-old street trader from Nigeria.<\/span><\/p>\n

The couple had contacted Ukpo through a middleman to harvest his kidney for their daughter Sonia who is suffering from a chronic kidney disease<\/span><\/p>\n

They were convicted alongside Obinna Obeta, a medical \u201cmiddleman,\u201d who continues to serve a 10-year jail term in the UK following their prosecution under the UK\u2019s Modern Slavery Act 2015.<\/span><\/p>\n

Upon her arrival, Beatrice was received at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport Abuja by friends and relatives on Tuesday, January 21, after the long legal saga which started in 2022.<\/span><\/p>\n

POLITICS NIGERIA also gathered that her return has sparked a wide celebration in her hometown in Mpu, Aninri Local Government Area (LGA) of Enugu State where many are expecting her homecoming.<\/span><\/p>\n

Her husband, the former lawmaker remains in the UK prison where he is still serving his own sentence.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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Beatrice, the wife of a former deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu has returned to Nigeria, two years after serving a jail term in a prison in the United Kingdom. The former lawmaker\u2019s wife was convicted alongside her husband over her role in an organ harvesting conspiracy. While her husband got a nine-year and eight-month sentence […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":240270,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[2933,2934,2935,2936,2937,2938,2939,2940],"class_list":["post-240269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-beatrice-ekweremadu","tag-former-deputy-speaker","tag-ike-ekweremadu","tag-kidney-disease","tag-organ-harvesting","tag-sonia-ekweremadu","tag-uk-prison","tag-ukpo-david"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/IMG_5904.webp.webp","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=240269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240269\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/240270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}