Accused kidney trafficker ‘is a hypocrite’

A Nigerian senator accused of trafficking a vulnerable market trader to the UK for his kidney did not care about the poor despite his public charity work, a court heard. Ike Ekweremadu, 60, and his wife Beatrice, 56, are accused of illegally transporting the man to the UK to provide a kidney for their 25-year-old daughter Sonia. Sonia suffers from a ‘significant and deteriorating kidney condition’ and requires dialysis until she receives a transplant, the Old Bailey has heard. Ike,…