‘I don’t know why I’m in court,’ sobs senator’s wife accused of kidney trafficking

The wife of a Nigerian senator wept in court as she denied trafficking a market trader to the UK to provide a kidney for her daughter. Ike Ekweremadu, 60, and 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 court has heard. Ike, Beatrice and Sonia, along with ‘middleman’…