The University of Lincoln has banned a visiting professor who tried to ‘harvest organs from a 15-year that had been trafficked to the UK using a fake passport’.
A consultant working in a NHS hospital refused to remove the vital organ a 15-year-old who was allegedly trafficked to London from the streets of Lagos by the former deputy president of the Nigerian Senate and his wife, a court heard.
Ike Ekweremadu, 60, and Beatrice Ekweremadu, 55, are accused of taking the homeless youngster to the UK from Nigeria to transplant his organs into their daughter who is suffering from kidney failure.
A University of Lincoln Spokesperson: ‘Visiting professors are often, as is in this case, non-resident at the university, unpaid and advisory.
‘We are deeply concerned about the nature of these allegations but as this is an active police investigation, we cannot comment further at this stage.
‘Whilst this matter is subject to investigation, this person will not be undertaking any duties as visiting professor at Lincoln.’
