Wife of Senator Ike Ekweremadu, Beatrice Ekweremadu has been  was  bail by a London court on Monday. The couple had been held by the UK police on charges of human trafficking and organ harvesting for over a month.


 They were arrested  June 23 by the UK police, claiming they attempted  to traffic a minor to illegally harvest his organ. The claim that the alleged victim was a minor was subsequently debunked after passports, national ID and other documents showed he was aged 21. 


 The matter was postponed until August for further hearing before today’s decision to free Mrs Ekweremadu while Mr Ekweremadu would remain in custody. 


  “The position is that I have granted bail to Beatrice subject to some fairly stringent conditions but I have refused bail to Ike,” the Common Serjeant of London, Richard Marks, said in his ruling on Monday evening. 


  The court did not immediately state  the stringent terms set for Mrs Ekweremadu or when Mr Ekweremadu would be released before adjourning the matter till August 4.


The position is that I have granted bail to Beatrice subject to some fairly stringent conditions but I have refused bail to Ike,” the Common Serjeant of London, Richard Marks, said in his ruling on Monday evening. Mr Ekweremadu, 60, a serving senator from Enugu, was Nigeria’s Deputy Senate President from 2015 to 2019. He unsuccessfully ran to be governor of his state during the Peoples Democratic Party’s primaries in May.