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Apex Igbo socio-cultural organisation, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, on Tuesday, appealed to the British government for leniency for convicted former Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu.

The leadership of Ohanaeze Ndigbo made this request when they received the British High Commissioner to Nigeria, Dr Richard Montgomery, at the National Secretariat of Ohanaeze Ndigbo in Enugu.

The group accepted the court’s ruling that Ekweremadu should serve nine years and eight months in prison for organ harvesting. His wife, Beatrice, and the doctor, Obinna Obeta, were sentenced to four years six months and 10 years in prison respectively.

Archbishop Emmanuel Chukwuma, one of the leaders of the group, expressed that Ndigbo would be pleased if Ekweremadu’s jail term was reduced.

He said, “We are using the opportunity of your visit to ask for leniency for him so that he doesn’t spend the number of years in jail. We have accepted the judgment, but are saying if there’s anything that could be done to reduce the jail term. He’s from this area and if we don’t bring this thing up as Ohanaeze or from us here, concerning this important son of Igboland, it wouldn’t be nice of us. We are quite overwhelmed”.