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Ekweremadu: Immigration confirms real age of organ donor

by Sam Adeniyi
June 27, 2022
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Ekweremadu: Immigration confirms real age of organ donor

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The Nigeria Immigration Service has confirmed the real age of David Nwamina, allegedly taken to the United Kingdom for organ harvesting by Senator Ike Ekweremadu, and his wife, Beatrice.

PUNCH Metro had reported that the lawmaker and his wife were arraigned at the Uxbridge Magistrate Court in London on charges of conspiracy and organ harvest last week.

The prosecutor had claimed David, a 15-year-old boy, was unaware that he was in the UK to donate a kidney until he went for a hospital appointment with the Ekweremadus.

But pictures of his passport online indicated that David is 21 years old.

In a statement on Sunday by the acting Comptroller-General of Immigration, Idris Jere, the Immigration claimed that the Service followed due process before issuing David his passport and that he was of legal age.

The statement partly read, “The Service wishes to set the record straight by informing the general public that the views being expressed that the service did not properly vet the breeder documents issued by the applicant during his passport application process are not correct, but mere fabrications aimed at tarnishing the image of the Service.

“The facts of the matter concerning the case above, therefore, are that the said Mr David Ukpo Nwamina applied and paid for the Enhanced e-passport using the NIS portal after which he approached the Gwagwalada Passport Office, FCT Abuja, on November 2, 2021
for his interview.”

Jere said David provided the needed documents and was duly assessed by the service.

He added, “To support his application, Mr Nwamina presented all the necessary documents required, including his birth certificate issued by National Population Commission, showing October 12, 2000, as his date of birth; his National Identity Number, issued by NIMC corroborating the date of birth; a certificate of origin issued by Ebonyi State Government Liaison Office Abuja, and a Guarantor’s form duly signed.

“In view of the above, the general public may wish to be informed that the date of birth, or any other information, on any Nigerian passport is printed on the document only after a thorough vetting process that involves both the applicant’s breeder documents and the person. Mr Nwamina’s case, therefore, was not an exception.”

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