{"id":1447,"date":"2023-05-03T17:03:03","date_gmt":"2023-05-03T17:03:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/?p=1447"},"modified":"2023-05-03T17:03:03","modified_gmt":"2023-05-03T17:03:03","slug":"ekweremadu-dabiri-erewa-pleads-for-compassion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/2023\/05\/03\/ekweremadu-dabiri-erewa-pleads-for-compassion\/","title":{"rendered":"Ekweremadu: Dabiri-Erewa Pleads For Compassion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Abuja, May 3, 2023: Hon. Abike Dabiri-Erewa, Chairman\/CEO, Nigerians in Diaspora Commission (NIDCOM) has joined others in pleading with the UK government to show leniency<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>with former Nigeria Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu awaiting the verdict of the court on organ harvesting.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">In a statement by Abdur-Rahman Balogun Head of Media, Public Relations and Protocols of NIDCOM in Abuja, she pleaded with the court to show compassion and sympathy in this case <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">&#8221; I join men and women of goodwill to plead for clemency for Sen. Ike Ekweremadu , if only even considering the psychological<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>trauma, Sonia , the daughter, would be going through knowing that her parents are in jail because they tried to save her from a health condition she had no control over&#8221;, Dabiri-Erewa pleaded.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Dabiri-Erewa who reiterated her pleas, implored the UK government to<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>temper justice with mercy, admitted that &#8220;mistakes have been made , and lessons learnt&#8221;.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The NIDCOM boss posited<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>that though there is no ignorance before the law, Ekweremadu and his wife acted under natural instincts of parents to save an ailing daughter, and not for commercial purposes. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Abuja, May 3, 2023: Hon. Abike Dabiri-Erewa, Chairman\/CEO, Nigerians in Diaspora Commission (NIDCOM) has joined others in pleading with the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1448,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1447"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1447\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1449,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1447\/revisions\/1449"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}