Young donor volunteers to offer her kidney to Ike Ekwemeradu's daughter for free

FORMER deputy senate president Senator Ike Ekweremadu's daughter Sonia has been sent an open letter by a well-wisher named Annastasia Olamma who has volunteered to donate a kidney to help save her life.

In June, Senator Ekweremadu and his wife Beatrice were arrested by London's Metropolitan Police on suspicion of child trafficking and planned organ harvesting. They were charged before Uxbridge Magistrates’ Court with conspiracy to arrange/facilitate travel of another person with a view to exploitation, namely organ harvesting.

Both of them were denied bail at the time and were remanded in custody until the case were heard again on July 26 at the Westminster Magistrates Court, when Beatrice was released but her husband was denied bail. In the first such case of its kind involving Nigerians, the Ekweremadus were accused of conspiring to traffic a homeless man into the UK to harvest his kidney for their daughter.

They have been charged by the Metropolitan Police with conspiracy to engage in the organ harvesting of one David Ukpo Nwamini. Beatrice was charged with arranging or facilitating travel of another person with a view to exploitation, between August 1 last year and May 5, under the Modern Slavery Act 2015.

Senator Ekweremadu, was charged with conspiracy to arrange or facilitate travel of another person with a view to exploitation, namely organ harvesting. When the case was last heard on August 4 at the Old Bailey where it has been moved to, Obinna Obeta, a practising Nigerian medical doctor in London, appeared alongside the couple.

In what might be a bit of a relief for the couple, Ms Olamma, 24, has written an open letter to Sonia Ekweremadu, offering to donate one of her kidneys to save her life. This happened after the 25-year-old Sonia Ekweremadu made an appeal to members of the public to donate a kidney to save her life.

Responding to the appeal, Annastasia said she was ready to offer one of her kidneys to the Ekweremadus if none of her family members would. She added that this is to prove that women can help women, stressing that she is donating for free, praying that her kidney matches that of Sonia’s.

Her letter read: "I, Annastasia Michael Olamma want to donate one of my kidney to Sonia Ekweremadu to save her life. I have made up my mind to do this to prove women can help women.

"If any of her relatives mum, dad, and siblings, cannot give out their kidneys to save their bloodline, then I will donate my own to save Sonia and I demand nothing in return. I pray it matches with her own. I am 24 years old, I don’t take alcohol and I believe my kidney is very healthy to donate."