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The lynching of Ike Ekweremadu

IN 1991, as current US President Joe Biden and his colleagues in the US Senate played the game that Justice Brett Kavanaugh would later confront three decades later, Clarence Thomas, the first African American US Supreme Court nominee, made the following pronouncement: “This is a circus. It is a national disgrace. And from my standpoint, as a black American, as far as I am concerned, it is a high-tech lynching for uppity-blacks who in any way deign to think for themselves, to do for themselves, to have different ideas, and it is a message that, unless you cow-tow to an old order, this is what will happen to you, you will be lynched, destroyed, caricatured by a committee of the U.S. Senate, rather than hung from a tree.” Thomas had been slammed with a bogus sexual assault claim by an ex-intern, Anita Hill, and the Democrats were prepared to destroy his entire existence until he made the famous remarks that changed the course of history.

Across history, white racists have mauled, killed and hung Blacks and Black-loving whites for no just reason, and I view the trial culminating in the sentencing of ex-Deputy Senate President Ike Ekweremadu and his wife in the same manner. It is based on the politics of race. When news of Ekweremadu’s arrest broke, many Nigerians went after his person and his ailing daughter because of the sins of the political class among which he is a major player. They jettisoned hard evidence and purveyed silly sentiments, saying that the senator and his daughter fully deserved the hard fate that had befallen them! I disagree. Ekweremadu, like most politicians, may be a treasury looter or whatever but on this matter, I hold very strongly that he is only a pawn in an international chess game. Let the British hang him and his wife if they want, it will not change my opinion. And may I say to the social media loudmouths: beware of your utterances; God is watching us all.

The judicial dogs who are gloating over Ekweremadu’s fate are not concerned about justice. They never have. Their real interest is the opportunity to lynch a big Black fella following what they instructively described as a “first” and “a breakthrough” in their war against organ harvesting, a breakthrough that has only come because it is an African that is involved. Folks, there are people out there in Libya and other places who literally skin Nigerians and other African nationals alive, cutting them up and selling their organs. It is a brutal, demonic trade that all people of conscience must rise against. But to equate the actions of a loving father who sought out a donor to save his dying daughter with the actions of the brutes I have just referenced is not only idiotic, it is actually demonic. As I showed in “Who is thinking of Sonia Ekweremadu?” there are a number of exculpatory evidences that those interested in justice must consider.

I wrote: “From all the evidence provided so far, David Nwamini Ukpo, the organ donor whose false underdog story has captured the imagination of British morons, is nothing but a lying, manipulative, infernal scoundrel…Among other pieces of, in my view, unassailable evidence, Mr. Ukpo’s BVN issued on October 31, 2019, his international passport issued on November 4 2021 and his NIN issued on June 15, 2021 all establish beyond reasonable doubt that he was born on October 12, 2000. To have manipulated these details, Ekweremadu would have had to travel back in time and coach Ukpo on what to do, but there is no evidence of such manipulation.” The gist is that “after conducting various medical tests, the Royal Free Hospital in London decided that the said David Nwamini Ukpo was not a suitable donor because his kidney is not compatible with that of Sonia Ekweremadu.” I then surmised: “Realising that his ambition to japa (flee Nigeria), nursed quietly all along, was under threat, Ukpo approached the UK authorities with his super story.” I have found no reason to shelve this view.

Besides, Ekweremadu’s letter supporting Ukpo’s visa application also fully disclosed that he was headed to the UK for organ donation and declared the hospital for the procedure. It is a rare organ harvester indeed who would write such a letter! It is disturbing that after finding that Ukpo was no minor, the court still went ahead with its predetermined verdict. As I said in the piece under reference, if Ukpo is actually a minor, how on earth then did he escape the usually eagle-eyed British Immigration? I do not believe that Ukpo is an innocent young boy taken to the UK by subterfuge. Hard evidence indicates that he knew, and must have known, what he was in the UK to do, regardless of whatever deceptive tactics one Dr. Obeta, the middleman in the story, adopted over certain monetary issues.

Then we come to the EFCC’s infinitely dishonourable role in the saga. I yield the floor to Justice Inyang Ekwo of the Federal High Court sitting in Abuja. While vacating the interim order that allowed the Federal Government to seize 40 properties linked to the lawmaker, the judge berated the EFCC’s noxious role in the saga, saying that no Nigerian should be made to pass through such travail home or abroad. And what did the EFCC do? It orchestrated Ekweremadu’s continued detention in the UK, then filed an application before Justice Ekwo seeking the forfeiture of properties seized from him, knowing that he would be unable to defend himself!

Hear the judge: “In this case, the respondent (EFCC) wrote Exhibit SIE 2 (a letter) to the Crown Prosecution Service in the United Kingdom, which letter was used as evidence to deny Senator Ike Ekweremadu bail in the criminal proceedings. At the same time, the respondent filed an ex-parte application for interim forfeiture, which upon the order being made thereon required Senator Ekweremadu and his wife to show cause in Nigeria why an order for final forfeiture ought not to be made. I have been asking myself the question repeatedly: How can a citizen of Nigeria who is incarcerated outside the country to the knowledge of the respondent be expected to show cause in an action in Nigeria brought by the respondent? In other words, how do you help to tie down a man and initiate a fight and demand that the same man you have helped to tie down must defend himself?”

I don’t know who Ekweremadu offended, but they are an elite class of demons.

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