 The International Human Rights Commission has appealed to the government of the United Kingdom for leniency in the sentencing of former Nigerian Deputy Senate President Ike Iqwerimadu, alongside his wife, Beatrice, and Dr. Obinna Obeta, who was found guilty and convicted under the modern slavery act of the United Kingdom by the Central Criminal Court Old Bailey, London. The commission's ambassador-at-large and head of diplomatic mission to the Federal Republic of Nigeria, His Excellency Ambassador Dr. Duru Hezekiah, has set it on Wednesday at his office in Abuja while addressing newsmen. He said distinguished senator Ike Iqwerimadu is a patriotic Nigerian who has served the Nigerian Senate three consecutive times since 2003. He has described the senator Ike Iqwerimadu acted on the purview of parental instincts to save his daughter and not for commercial purposes as well, maybe ignorance of the law of the United Kingdom, adding that a distinguished personality and lawmaker of that repute wouldn't involve himself in such abominable act.