‘I kept penniless kidney donor in my house to monitor his well-being’

A doctor accused of attempting to help buy a kidney from a penniless Nigerian market trader told a court the man was only offered ‘compensation.’ Dr Obinna Obeta, 51, denies illegally transporting the man from Africa to donate a kidney to Sonia Ekweremadu, daughter of Nigerian senator Ike Ekweremadu. He told the court today that the £2,400 offered to the victim was only to pay his expenses, not to reward him for donating the kidney. The medic underwent his own…