Ekweremadu and his wife prayed the court to order the NIMC to supply them with the Certified True Copy (CTC) of Ukpo’s biodata.

Ahead of the July 7 appearance in a UK court of the former Deputy Senate President Ike Ekweremadu and his wife, Beatrice, the duo have asked the Federal High Court in Abuja to compel the National Identity Management Commission (NIMC) and others to provide information about the man they claimed volunteered to donate a kidney to their ailing daughter.

The Metropolitan Police claimed that Ekweremadu and his wife, Beatrice, attempted to harvest the kidney of a ’15-year-old boy,’ for which they are standing trial.

The request is among the reliefs in a suit they filed through their lawyer, Adegboyega Awomolo (SAN).

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Listed with NIMC as respondents in the suit are the Comptroller General (CG) of the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS), Stanbic-IBTC Bank, United Bank of Africa (UBA) and Nigeria Inter-Bank Settlement System Plc.

They stated, among the grounds, that the information/documents required from the respondents are needed for their defence in the case filed against them in a United Kingdom (UK) court.

In the suit, Ekweremadu and his wife prayed the court to order the NIMC to supply them with the Certified True Copy (CTC) of Ukpo’s biodata.

They stated that Ukpo’s National Identification Number (NIN): 19438077110, which is in the possession of the agency, should be produced for the purpose of facilitating the criminal investigation and tendering same to establish their innocence regarding Ukpo’s age in the criminal charges against them before the Uxbridge Magistrates’ Court, among others.