The Chairman/CEO, Nigerians in Diaspora Commission (NIDCOM), Hon. Abike Dabiri-Erewa, has joined others in pleading with the UK government to show leniency to former Nigeria Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu, who is awaiting the verdict of the court on an organ harvesting case.
The Commission’s boss in a statement by NIDCOM Head of Media, Public Relations and Protocols, Abdur-Rahman Balogun, Wednesday, in Abuja, pleaded with the court to show compassion and sympathy in Ekweremadu’s case.
“I join men and women of goodwill to plead for clemency for Senator Ike Ekweremadu. If only even considering the psychological trauma his daughter, Sonia, would be going through knowing that her parents are in jail because they tried to save her from a health condition she had no control over,” Dabiri-Erewa pleaded.
The NIDCOM boss, admitted that “mistakes have been made, and lessons learnt,” implored the UK government to temper justice with mercy.
She posited that though there was no ignorance before the law, it should be noted that Ekweremadu and his wife acted under natural instincts of parents to save an ailing daughter, and not for commercial purposes.