Farook Kperogi, a Nigerian-American professor, author, media scholar, newspaper columnist, blogger and activist, brings a different perspective to the arrest of former deputy senate president, senator Ike Ekweremadu and wife by the Metropolitan Police in the United Kingdom.
The couple were earlier arrested by the operatives of the UK police over alleged trafficking of a child to the country to harvest the organs.

According to Kperogi in a statement said;

“the Senator did not commit ritual killing as it is widely speculated”
He is of the opinion that Ekweremadu whose child is sick may have inadvertently failed the law by taking a child to the UK for organ harvesting without proper consent.
Contrary to the myopic belief of many Nigerians on the meaning of Organ Harvesting, the US professor said;
“Organ harvesting doesn’t mean killing someone and selling their body parts for “money” or other kinds of “ritual.”
“It’s a term for surgically removing a body organ, such as a kidney, from a healthy person who can live without it and transplanting it to the body of someone who is in danger of dying without it. “It’s a crime in the UK and elsewhere if this is done without the consent of the organ donor.”
He continued;
“Ekweremadu’s child needs an organ to survive, and he is alleged to have brought in a donor from Nigeria whose consent he and his wife didn’t seek.
“Contrary to what people are saying on social media, he didn’t plan on killing someone for “ritual.”
He ended with the normal Nigerian Parlance saying;
“Some Naija people no go kill pesin with their their atavistic thinking. Everything is “ritual sacrifice”.
Some other sources has also confirmed what the professor said and has indicated that the supposed donor is not a minor and that the organ did not match.
According to sources, The supposed donor not wanting to return to Nigeria, went to report that he was trafficked to London for possible organ harvest, believing it would guarantee him asylum.

Finally, according to our findings;

1. Ike Ekweremadu wasn’t involved in any organ trafficking.
2. He has a daughter who needs a transplant.
3. A willing donor was seen in Nigeria and travel preparations were made.
4. Ike Ekweremadu wrote to the British High Commission, explaining the situation
5. The donor travelled to the UK with the patient.
6. The patient is a 21 year old man and not a girl as many are writing.
7. He is not a minor.
8. As it happened, the organ did not even match.
8. Not wanting to return to Nigeria, the donor went to report that he was trafficked to London for possible organ harvest, believing same would guarantee him asylum.

Below is a support document of a medical Visa application written by the Senator to the British High Commission.