{"id":13396,"date":"2023-05-03T17:01:52","date_gmt":"2023-05-03T17:01:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/?p=13396"},"modified":"2023-05-03T17:01:52","modified_gmt":"2023-05-03T17:01:52","slug":"ekweremadu-dabiri-erewa-pleads-for-compassion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/?p=13396","title":{"rendered":"Ekweremadu: Dabiri-Erewa Pleads For Compassion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">Hon. Abike Dabiri-Erewa, Chairman\/CEO, Nigerians in Diaspora Commission (NIDCOM) has joined others in pleading with the UK government to show leniency\u00a0 with former Nigeria Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu awaiting the verdict of the court on organ harvesting.<\/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>Hon. Abike Dabiri-Erewa, Chairman\/CEO, Nigerians in Diaspora Commission (NIDCOM) has joined others in pleading with the UK government to show leniency  with former Nigeria Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu awaiting the verdict of the court on organ harvesting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13397,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[6937,6936],"class_list":["post-13396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-metro","tag-abike-dabiri-erewa","tag-ikr-ekweremadu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13396"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13396"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13396\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13398,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13396\/revisions\/13398"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}