EKWEREMADU’S SAGA: Immigration Clarifies Organ Donor’s Age Controversy | DETAILS

The Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS), has lend its voice to clarify the controversy trailing the real age of one Mr David Nwamini who is at the centre of senator Ike Ekweremadu’s organ harvesting saga.

All Facts Newspaper had reported that Ekweremadu and his wife, Beatrice were arrested last Tuesday and arraigned on Thursday before a UK court for allegedly conspiring to harvest a minor’s organ for his daughter who is down with kidney failure.

Clarifying the 15 and 21-year-old age of Nwamini, during a press conference on Sunday, June 26, the Comptroller General of the NIS, Mr. Idris Jere, at a press conference on Sunday, said Nwamini with all the necessary documents provided before the issuance of his passport, affirms that he is 21-year-old.

“The fact of the matter concerning the case above, therefore, are that Mr David Ukpo Nwamini applied and paid for the e-passport using the NIS portal after which he approached the passport office in Gwagwalada, FCT Abuja, on November 2, 2021 for his interview.

“To support his application, Mr Nwamini presented all necessary documents required including his birth certificate issued by the National Population Commission, showing October 12, 2000 as his date of birth; his National Identification Number, issued by NIMC corroborating the date of birth; a Certificate of Origin issued by Ebonyi State Government Liaison office in Abuja, and a guarantor’s form duly signed.

“NIS relies on documentation supplied by other agencies and we are not under any obligation to go to those agencies to verify those documents. What we do is that we look at the documents and applicants physically. Once that is done, we go ahead to process”Jere said.