A Nigerian couple face a maximum sentence of 14 years’ imprisonment for secretly enslaving a Nigerian in Britain for 25 years.
Dr Emmanuel Edet, 59, and his wife Antan Edet, 56, have been charged with holding a person in servitude and immigration offences. They will appear at Harrow Crown Court later this month, Mail Online reported.
Scotland Yard is said to be investigating the case, after a Nigerian, Ofonime Sunday Edet, walked into a police station and claimed he was being held as a slave. Ofonime Edet, 38, said he has been held against his will since being trafficked to Britain in 1989, when he was just 13.
Edet told officers he was first enslaved by the couple in Nigeria, after his father’s death, with a promise to provide work, lodging and an education so he could support his family.
Instead, he claims, he was lured to Britain and forced to undertake menial tasks for years for little or no pay while being threatened not to speak to anyone else.
He was inspired to break free by the national outcry surrounding the release last October of a group of women held in a cult-like Maoist ‘slave house’, according to Mail Online
Dr Edet is a respected gynaecologist who worked for Surrey County Council and has written several academic works on child welfare.
He is an expert on teenage pregnancy and who worked as a non-clinical adviser and is the author of guidelines followed by hundreds of health workers. His wife is a senior ward manager at Ealing Hospital, less than four miles from their modern terraced home in Perivale, North West London.culled
The cookie has finally crumbled! Why work so hard to make a name for myself,then destroy it with my own hands for a reason as petty as this?wonders shall never end.
ReplyDeleteWhen will naija be like this?
ReplyDeleteWhat a wicked world. Do unto others...
ReplyDeleteAre my shocked? Yes I am. He kept quite for that long? This is the height of loyalty. I feel bad for him.
ReplyDeleteare my shocked?..as in 4real?
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They'll surely feel d weight of d law, wicked couple! And to think they are meant to preserve life, how sad.
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This story is twisted oh, lemme watch out for part two.
ReplyDeleteSee this idiotic houseboy wey them help. E don sabi small english now e dey go report. Not your fault boy
ReplyDeleteVery dumb comment
DeleteThe Witches from his village just left him;but since 1989 no work,that one na house-boy oh,there is nothing like may face jail term,Dr Edit is going to jail and his people wish him well.
ReplyDelete38years old man? wow! Thank God he is free now.
ReplyDeleteOk odas shud take heed.
ReplyDeleteThey probably took him to the UK from Nigeria as domestic help, I wonder what happened over the years. One thing is sure, he has messed this couple up big time.
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Something about this story doesn't add up
ReplyDeleteWhatever happened to just walking away... Ingrate who was given a better life...
ReplyDeleteIn your mind that's a better life abi, poverty mentality is a disease
DeleteI may be wrong but I figure he's now exposed and feels he should have gotten more. Probably asked them and they declined. They sure must have promised him and his people a better life for him but did not heed their own side of the bargain and he may have stayed intimidated for a long while obviously. Whatever the case, the outcome won't augur well for the doctor and his wife. Wow!
ReplyDeleteGbam. He has made friends and now wants to live life. UK authorities are very smart. They will judge based on which side benefits the society more. The houseman may even be deported as he is not a tax payer and is not specially skilled.
DeleteGbam. He has made friends and now wants to live life. UK authorities are very smart. They will judge based on which side benefits the society more. The houseman may even be deported as he is not a tax payer and is not specially skilled.
Deleteone sided story.
ReplyDeletethe united kingdom is such a free place. they couldn't have been able to hold him for that long. he is old enough to have been able to step out, go to the Nigerian embassy and push to be sent back to Nigeria or nah.
neighbors are nosy. they could have sensed something unusual.
I strongly sense that he is trying to get back at them for something that happened but i might be wrong.
except he is mentally or physically challenged.something is definitely wrong somewhere and ONLY God knows. this story no complete.
@ Julit, u took the words right out of my mouth. He could have walked away, he's almost 40....he may very well be mentally challenged.
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Y'all shld chill..think b4 u talk,dey held him 4 19yrs nd made him not talk 2 anyone 4 19yrs,so 4 i9yrs he nva stepped out of the house,he dznt go 2 d supermkrt,or d clinic..nd d menial jobs he z tlk abt is all done inside d couple's home,he had no access 2 phones till yesterday? Abeg na mk una tuse una head small nd dis guy bears same surname wt dem..there z more 2 dis story if u ask me...kimora
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DeleteI smell set up. This guy just wants to less this couple up. So he means for 19yrs,he hasn't been outside the house ot what? He hasn't spoken to anyone? Please,hrs just a wicked person
ReplyDeleteReally??
DeleteNahhh you've missed the point. There's a difference btw being mentally subdued and bring physically incapacitated. In this case he was just 13 when they took to him. And not being able to spk to anyone doesn't mean that he had no friends or outsiders that he would spk with.
DeleteWhat I think he means by that is that he was constrained with what to discuss with anyone. It doesn't seem like he suffered any physical abused, so much to attract their neighbours or outsiders. I think that he was bullied to silence on the grounds that he would be deprived of the benefits of living with them in the UK, and of course, that his family back home would be deprived too. And if he lived with them illegally that would also be used as a bait to bully him, further. he was simply vulnerable, hence. I suspect that someone liberated him from the mental shackles, to understand that he could be better in life outside of this couple. He would have examined the pros and cons before speaking to the police. And I also believe that perhaps another close relative aided and took him to the station.
To think a doctor will make such a mistake??!!
ReplyDelete38yrs old being held a slave..really?
ReplyDeleteWhatever happened to walking away, starting afresh, getting a menial job? Even teenagers run away from home and this one is calling himself a slave at 38yrs old. Agbaya....
He just want to bite the hands that have been feeding him Jare.
people will just come here and be vomiting rubbish on a one sided story. then when stella brings the other side u all still come back and change your ring tone....lol....gullible fools.....since u dont have the full details then ya all shut up...no awards for commenting...
ReplyDelete19 yrs a slave
ReplyDeleteThe bloke is a bloody liar! This is what happens when you do a good deed and bring extended family members abroad to better their lot; they turn around and poke you in the eyes!
ReplyDeleteWhatever happens, he has soiled the name of his benefactors. So sad.
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Deletea male gynecologist wid teenage girls, not really a wonda he waz a little sick towards others.
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