Ohanaeze Ndigbo, the apex Igbo socio-cultural organization, has again requested that Senator Ike Ekweremadu be granted bail in the United Kingdom.
The lawmaker has been detained for months after being charged with organ harvesting alongside his wife.
Despite the fact that his wife, Beatrice, was granted bail, the court determined that the former Deputy Senate President was a flight risk.
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However, on Monday, the lawmaker’s daughter, who has kidney disease, appealed to the public for a kidney donor.
She went on to say that her father was also suffering from kidney disease while in detention.
In response, Mazi Okwu Nnabuike, National President of Ohanaeze Ndigbo Youth Council Worldwide, pleaded with UK authorities to take the lawmaker’s health into account.
Okwu stated in a statement made available to Newsmen on Tuesday that Ekweremadu would not jump bail given his social standing.
He said, “In the light of the revelations by Senator Ike Ekweremadu’s daughter, we want to appeal again that he be released on bail.
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“It is always said that a court trial is for the living. You can try a man who is dead; so considering the current revelation of the Senator’s health status, our plea is that he be released on bail to enable him to attend to his health and face his trial.
“Senator Ike Ekweremadu is not just a former Deputy Senate President, but former Speaker, ECOWAS parliament. There is no way such a calibre of person would jump bail.”
“We urge the UK court to reconsider its stand on this matter in order to avoid a double jeopardy. Should Ekweremadu and his daughter die in the course of this case, it would have amounted to a double jeopardy.
“He is still an accused person and we have never doubted his innocence from day one of this episode. This is why we are again making this very passionate appeal,” Okwu added.
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