The Federal Government through the Nigerian Immigration Service, NIS, on Sunday, contradicted the Metropolitan Police on the age of David Nwamini, the alleged victim at the centre of an organ harvesting sage involving a former Deputy Senate President Ike Ekweremadu and his wife, Beatrice.
Speaking at a zoom meeting with journalists, the NIS said Nwamini is 21, contrary to claims by the Met that he is 15 years old.
The Comptroller General of the NIS, Mr. Isah Idris, told journalists that Nwanini applied for his international passport which was issued after thorough checks by the passport issuing agency.
According to him, Nwamini made available documents from the National Population Commission and the National Identity Management Commission, NIMC, which indicated that he was born on October 12, 2000.
The NIS CG further explained that Nwanini was captured for the international passport on November 2, 2021, at the Gwagwalada office of the agency.
He noted that both parties in the saga were yet to reach his office on the age of the would-be donor.
Ekweremadu and wife Beatrice walked into troubled waters last Thursday, June 23 over allegations of trafficking Nwanini with the aim of harvesting his kidney for their daughter.
The Ekweremadus had been in the UK for at least two weeks before they were arrested, and were immediately arraigned at the Uxbridge Magistrates’ Court in London but denied bail and remanded till July 7.
The case against the couple, prosecutors say, is the attempt by Ekweremadu and his wife to exploit Nwamini when he is 15 years old for organ harvesting.
A letter on social media shows that Senator Ekweremadu had written to the British High Commission about the trip and the reason.
But things took a sharp turn when on arriving the UK, Nwamini is believed to have told the police there that he is an underage and not 21 years old as stated in his passport.
Already, Senator Ekweremadu is paying a high price as the University of Lincoln has barred him from undertaking any further duties as visiting professor over the organ harvesting charge.
