Court orders immigration, NIMC, two banks to release Nwamini’s details to Ekweremadu

By our reporter| A federal high court in Abuja on Friday ordered the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS), the National Identity Management Commission (NIMC), and two commercial banks to release the official details of David Nwamini to a former Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu, and his wife, Beatrice.

The couple are being detained by the United Kingdom authorities over allegations of conspiring to bring a child to Britain for organ harvesting with Nwamini said to be the victim.

Justice Inyang Ekwo, gave the order in a judgment following an originating summon filed by Senator Ekweremadu and his wife through their counsel and a Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), Adegboyega Awomolo.

Although the Met police said Nwamini was 15, the NIS said it issued an international passport indicating his age as 21 after due process.

Awomolo had in the suit prayed that Nwamini’s National Identification Number (NIN), which is in the possession of the NIMC, should be produced for the purpose of facilitating the criminal investigation and tendering same to establish his client’s innocence.

He asked that the Comptroller General of NIS be directed to provide his clients with the documents and application form which Nwamini presented to obtain his international passport, for the purpose of assisting the criminal investigation and tendering same before the Uxbridge Magistrate Court in the UK.

He had also prayed the court for an order directing Stanbic IBTC Bank and UBA to provide the Certified True Copy of Nwamini’s mandate card and account opening package in their custody.

By Friday’s court order, all official information in relation to Nwamini, including the account opening package, are to be released to Senator Ekweremadu and his wife to ascertain his real age for their defence at the resumed hearing of the case on July 7.