A Federal High Court in Abuja on Friday ordered the Nigerian Immigration Service (NIS), the National Identity Management Commission (NIMC) and some banks in the country to release the biodata information of David Ukpo to the former Deputy President, Ike Ekweremadu and his wife, Beatrice.
The order was given by Justice Inyang Ekwo in a ruling on Friday after listening to the lawyer to Ekweremadu and his wife, Adegboyega Awomolo (SAN).
The former Deputy Senate President and his wife had in a suit with number FHC/ABJ/CS/984/2022, urged the court to among others, order the defendants to supply them with the certified-true copies of David Ukpo’s biodata information in their care to aid their (plaintiffs) defence in their trial before a United Kingdom Magistrates’ Court, where they are accused of plotting to harvest Ukpo’s organ (kidney).
Others mentioned in the case are the Comptroller General of the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS); Stanbic-IBTC Bank; United Bank of Africa (UBA), and Nigeria Inter-Bank Settlement System (NIBSS) Plc.
When the case was mentioned, Awomolo declared that an application had been made for the withdrawal of the case against the NIBSS, which Justice Ekwo accepted and struck its name out.
Justice Ekwo said he was satisfied that the defendants had been served with the relevant court documents.
The judge declared that by the averments in the application by Ekweremadu and his wife, he was satisfied that their prayers were out to be granted.
“I make an order granting the prayers,” he declared
