‘Donors often give away their kidneys to strangers in Nigeria’

A wealthy family accused of trafficking a penniless market trader from Nigeria to provide a kidney claim ‘cultural differences’ mean donors often give away their organs in Africa. Nigerian senator Ike Ekweremadu, 60, allegedly illegally transported the 21-year-old man to the UK along with his wife Beatrice, 56, and 25-year-old daughter Sonia. Ike, Beatrice and Sonia, along with ‘middleman’ Dr Obinna Obeta, 51, all deny conspiracy to arrange the travel of another person with a view to exploitation. Sonia suffers…