In response to Senator Ike Ekweremadu and his wife’s conviction, the Speaker of the Economic Community of West African States’ (ECOWAS) Parliament/Community Parliament, Sidie Mohamed Tunis, has written to the Chief Clerk of the Central Criminal Court in London pleading for mercy.
Recall that Senator Ekweremadu and his wife, together with a Nigerian physician named Obinna Obeta, were recently found accountable for attempting to steal an organ from a Nigerian who was smuggled to Britain in order to give it to their daughter who was ill.
Olusegun Obasanjo, a former president, had begged for Ekweremadu in a similar letter last month.