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A high-level delegation sent by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu met with officials at the UK Ministry of Justice today to discuss the case of former Deputy Senate President, Senator Ike Ekweremadu, who has been detained in Britain since March 2023, Very Nigerian reports.

The delegation included Nigeria’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, Yusuf Maitama Tuggar, and the Attorney General and Minister of Justice, Lateef Olasunkanmi Fagbemi. The meeting signals a renewed diplomatic effort by the Tinubu administration regarding the high-profile detention. Following the talks, the delegation was received at the Nigerian High Commission in London by Ambassador Mohammed Maidugu, the Acting High Commissioner to the United Kingdom.

This high-level intervention from the Nigerian government occurs against a backdrop of increasing—and sometimes contentious—engagement between the British and Nigerian legal systems involving public figures.

Senator Ekweremadu, his wife, Beatrice, and a doctor were convicted in March 2023 of conspiring to arrange the travel of a young man to the UK to exploit him for his kidney, a crime under the Modern Slavery Act.

Ekweremadu was subsequently sentenced to nine years and eight months in prison. His detention and conviction mark the first verdict of its kind under the Modern Slavery Act and sent a global message that powerful political figures are not above the law.

festacman:
Tinubu is blocking every opening for 2027 victory. Just wish he could do this with the governance especially reviving the economy.

surgical:
He go still loose, our lives, the masses matters,since we are more in numbers and his policies are anti people, he remains a one term president, all this one he is doing. He has played penalty enter throwing

Eminent2025:
UK is not like Nigeria, Nigeria is a lawless country, US ,UK Europe is a law abiding country they don't consider your position when you commit they put u in prison

Nigeria law is only for the poor

EnEnPeecee:
This man should be released abeg. He has suffered enough

Richtaiwo:
He won't win primaries, he won.
He won't win the general election, he won.
He won't be sworn in, he was sworn in.
He will die after swearing in, he is still alive.
We are now at the stage of, he is a one term president. People dey oh.

Newsgeek24:
https://verynigerian.com/nigerian-delegation-engages-uk-over-ekweremadus-conviction/

SixSeven:
Let's take this news with a pinch of salt. Let's assume it's like the presidential pardon list because we can say once was a mistake but if it is indeed true, then the government has created its own narrative of associating itself with crime. I remember when they used to joke here that APC is
Association of
Past
Criminals

I still want to give the benefit of doubt that the President is not doing this. It's some bad people using his name.

SixSeven:
Let's take this news with a pinch of salt. Let's assume it's like the presidential pardon list because we can say once was a mistake but if it is indeed true, then the government has created its own narrative of associating itself with crime. I remember when they used to joke here that APC is
Association of
Past
Criminals

I still want to give the benefit of doubt that the President is not doing this. It's some bad people using his name.