Ukpo’s BVN which was registered in 2019, indicated he was born on October 12, 2000, meaning he will be 22 years old in the next four months.
By Ishaya Ibrahim, News Editor
More facts have emerged about the ‘15-year-old child’ a former Deputy President of the Senate, Ike Ekweremadu, allegedly took to the U.K for kidney transplantation.
Ekweremadu and his wife, Beatrice have been arraigned in the UK because the person who was supposed to donate his kidney to their daughter, Sonia, is said to be a minor.
The donor, David Ukpo Nwamini, was said to have told the British Police that he was 15-year-old, and not 21-year-old as revealed in his travel document.
But a record of the proposed donor’s BVN which was registered in 2019, indicated he was born on October 12, 2000, meaning he will be 22 years old in the next four months.
The date of birth in the international passport also tallies with his BVN record, all indicating he is not the child that the British authorities are claiming, and upon which Ekweremadu and his wife have been arraigned.
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For Farouk Kperogi who teaches journalism at the Kennesaw State University in the U.S., the evidence seems to be pointing in the direction of the possibility that 21-year-old Ukpo, upon arriving in the UK after agreeing to donate his kidney to Sonia, changed his mind and decided to seek asylum by claiming to be a 15-year-old child who’s trafficked to London for organ harvesting.
Kperogi added that If it turns out to be true that Ukpo is 21 and not 15, that would be a horrible way to escape Buhari’s Nigeria.
He added: “Cashing in on other people’s personal tragedy–and destroying them in the process–just to pursue your dream to leave Nigeria is singularly evil.”
