Anxiety Mounts As Ekweremadu Spends Christmas In Jail

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Former Deputy Senate President, Ike kweremadu will spend this year Christmas and New year celebrations in London prison consequent upon the refusal of his bail application yesterday at the Central Criminal Court.

Ruling on the bail application, the presiding judge said that the incarcerated Ekweremadu poses as a flight risk, adding that his trial is barely a month away.

The Judge declined to grant bail to the former Deputy Senate President on the ground that he is a “holder of three other passports of countries, and expressed fear that Ekweremadu may divert his travel to neither of those countries.
But Ekweremadu’s defence team attempts to extricate him from the British justice web, hits brick wall.

The reference of Ekweremadu’s intimidating personality as ground for his bail proved futile
The defence also disclosed that the Nigerian Ambassador to the United kingdom, the Attorney General of the federation of Nigeria and the Nigerian Bar Association gave character references for Ekweremadu and asked the Court to consider electronic tagging in Order to monitor his movement.

But the Judge was not rattled by the efforts to free Ekweremadu from the justice hook.

Only recently, Ekweremadu through his lawyer raised the alarm that the federal government of Nigeria and the Economic and Financial Crime Commission (EFCC) were behind his continuing incarceration in the British prison.

It would be recalled recalled that Ekweremadu was charged of conspiracy to facilitate organ harvesting of David Nwamini’s kidney for his daughter, Sonia.
The former Deputy Senate President have spent about seven months in the British prison since he was arrested 23rd June, 2022 at the Heathrow Airport.

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