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A former Deputy Senate President Ike Ekweremadu, who was sentenced to 10 years in prison for human trafficking last year, is under investigation by the London Metropolitan Police in a new case linked to him.
A documentary, titled: āDaniel vs Ekweremadu,ā showed that the police are investigating a case involving Ekweremadu, although details of the case are scarce due to the ongoing investigation.
Part One of the two-part docu-series was released on August 23; it is written and directed by award-winning filmmaker and TV host, Chude Jideonwo.
In an email to the producers, a spokesperson to the police, Alexandra Meek, as shown in the documentary, explained the basis of the investigation.
She said: āWith regard to the live investigation, which is linked ā On Tuesday, November 8, 2022, detectives from the Metās Specialist Crime arrested a woman on suspicion of conspiracy to exploit for the purposes of organ harvesting.
āThe woman, who is in her ā50s, has been released under investigation. Enquiries remain ongoing.ā
Ms. Meek, who is a senior communication manager for the Met Police, said this was why the police could not participate in the documentary.
Chude said: āāDanielā is the name given by a journalist and adopted by the documentary filmmakers for the victim-survivor of the first conviction under the UKās Modern Slavery Law ā under which Ekweremadu became the first to be sentenced to jail alongside his wife, Beatrice, and a doctor-friend, Obinna Obeta.
āIt follows a directive from the judge of the case for the real name to remain undisclosed.
āDaniel vs Ekweremaduā tells the story of Senator Ekweremaduās fall from Nigerian Deputy Senate President to British jailbird upon his conviction for organ harvesting.
Shot in Nigeria and the United Kingdom, the series includes exclusive access to British prosecutors, the police, the family of the survivor-victim, amongst others in this first-of-its-kind thriller-style documentary from a West African independent studio.
āThe two-part series is available exclusively on the streaming platform with Chude.com. It is produced by the factual film and series studio, Chude Jideonwo Presents,ā the producers said.
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