Former Deputy Senate President Ike Ekweremadu, and his wife, Beatrice have sued the National Identity Management Commission (NIMC) and others, asking the court to compel them to provide the correct biodata of David Ukpo.
Others mentioned in the suit are the Comptroller General (C-G), Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS), Stanbic-IBTC Bank; United Bank of Africa (UBA) and Nigeria Inter-Bank Settlement System Plc as 2nd to 5th respondents respectively
Ekweremadu and his wife were on Tuesday, June 23, arrested by the UK police for conspiracy to facilitate the travel of Ukpo, an alleged minor for organ harvesting. They were subsequently remanded in custody till July 7.
The donor allegedly claimed to be 15 at the time of his interview by the doctor who was to perform the organ transplant from David Ukpo to the ailing daughter of the Ekweremadu.
In a suit marked FHC/ABJ/CS/984/2022 and filed on June 27 by Adegboyega Awomolo, the couple’s counsel, before Inyang Ekwo, justice of a federal high court in Abuja, the Ekweremadus prayed the court for an order directing the NIMC to supply them with the certified true copy (CTC) of Ukpo’s biodata.
