Senator was on human rights committee at time of kidney plot

A Nigerian senator was part of a committee overseeing human rights when he allegedly trafficked a market trader to the UK to provide a kidney for his daughter, a court heard. Ike Ekweremadu, 60, is accused of illegally transporting the man to the UK along with his wife Beatrice, 56, and 25-year-old daughter Sonia. Sonia suffers from a ‘significant and deteriorating kidney condition’ and requires dialysis until she receives a transplant, the court has heard. Ike, Beatrice and Sonia, along…