Former Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu has begun teaching his fellow inmates in Wandsworth prison in the United Kindom.
A former inmate, identified as Mr X, told The Guardian that Ekweremadu was giving back to the society where it lacked knowledge of while waiting to be charged for “facilitating and arranging travel with the aim of exploiting a 21-year-old man’s kidney.”
X said:
“He was lecturing. He was teaching a lot of Eastern Europeans English.”
The Nigerian-born X revealed that the Former Senator, whom
he had never heard of was a “simple and nice man.”
According to him, he met the Senator at the His Majesty’s Prison.
Since Ekweremadu was sentenced with his wife, Beatrice, and Dr Obinna Obeta at the Old Bailey last week Friday, the former prisoner disclosed, he has gotten support from people he had helped in the past.
X said:
“He was always having a lot of letters. People were writing him from Nigeria. Those he had helped before.”
X Spoke with The Guardian inside the Caffè Nero shop opposite Courtroom 1, where the Senator was slammed with over nine years jail term on the day of the sentencing.
X said he was at Wandsworth Prison when Ekweremadu was brought there in June last year, after he and his wife were arrested on arrival at Heathrow Airport on June 21.
X further described Ekweremadu, as a devout Christian who spent his time in prison reading the Bible and praying.
X was declared “not quilt” of charges by the Southwark Crown Court in September 2022.
Ekweremadu was initially held in Wandsworth before being moved to Belmarsh for his trial, which began on January 31 at the Old Bailey.
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