Kidney donor was ‘part of the family’ says doctor

A Nigerian doctor accused of trafficking a penniless market trader to the UK and treating him like a slave told a court he was ‘part of the family’. Dr Obinna Obeta, 51, denies illegally transporting the man from Nigeria to the UK to donate a kidney to Sonia Ekweremadu, daughter of Nigerian senator Ike Ekweremadu. The man has claimed he was forced to complete household chores without pay by Obeta after the transplant did not go ahead. The medic underwent…