‘I wasn’t trying to scam family of ill daughter,’ says doctor

A doctor has denied trying to scam a Nigerian senator when he allegedly helped him traffic a man to the UK for his kidney. Dr Obinna Obeta, 51,illegally transporting the man from Nigeria to the UK to donate a kidney to Sonia Ekweremadu, daughter of Nigerian senator Ike Ekweremadu, the Old Bailey has heard. Sonia, 25, suffers from a ‘significant and deteriorating kidney condition’ and requires dialysis until she receives a transplant. The medic underwent his own successful kidney transplant…