Reno Omokri Reacts To Jail Sentence Of Ekweremadu, Wife

Ike Ekweremadu and his wife Beatrice were sentenced to prison in the United Kingdom, and former presidential adviser Reno Omokri has responded.

WITHIN NIGERIA earlier reported that the 60-year-old Nigerian senator, his wife, and a medical doctor, Obinna Obeta were found guilty of conspiring to bring a market trader in Lagos to the UK for the purpose of harvesting his kidney for the use of the politician’s 25-year-old daughter, Sonia.

Beatrice Ekweremadu, 56, was sentenced to four years and six months in prison while the doctor charged with organ trafficking received a ten-year sentence and had his medical license suspended.

In a response posted on his Twitter page on Friday, Omokri expressed his sympathy for the family of Ekweremadu while expressing opposition to their course of action.

According to Reno, if the Senator’s scenario occurred in the North, the Muslim child would report to the mosque rather than the police station.

He emphasized that Muslims preferred using Islam to settle disputes over other methods.

He wrote:

I do not support what Ike Ekweremadu and his wife did. But I empathise with them. May God never permit me to be in the same position. I do not know what I would do in such circumstances. May the Almighty provide relief to the Ekweremadus. In Yeshua’s name.

If a Northern Nigerian Muslim had been brought to London by a desperate Northern Nigerian Muslim seeking to save his daughter’s life, and the intended donor had changed his mind, he would most likely have headed over to the nearest mosque rather than the nearest police station. Even in disagreement, my experience in Northern Nigeria taught me that they would rather use Islam for conflict resolution than other means.

In another tweet, Omokri appealed to the incoming administration not to abandon the Ekweremadus, stressing they should not let the couple rot in a foreign jail.

He added;

I appeal to the incoming administration not to abandon the Ekweremadus. They are not bad people. They were just fated with an unfortunate situation, to which nobody can really say how they would have responded. Please Nigeria do not leave them to rot away in prison.