‘My kidney donor came to the UK to save me’

A doctor accused of involvement in an organ trafficking plot told a court today (mon) how his own donor came forward to help him when he suffered kidney failure. Dr Obinna Obeta, 51, denies illegally transporting a market trader from Nigeria to the UK to donate a kidney to Sonia Ekweremadu, daughter of Nigerian senator Ike Ekweremadu. The medic underwent his own successful kidney transplant at the Royal Free on 17 July 2021 after his donor was brought from Nigeria…