The development comes amid growing concerns over healthcare conditions at the correctional facility, following reports of recent inmate deaths allegedly linked to delayed medical treatment.
Human rights activist and presidential candidate of the African Action Congress (AAC), Omoyele Sowore, is currently being held in a cell at the Kuje Correctional Centre alongside inmates suffering from tuberculosis, raising fresh concerns about his health and the state of medical care in Nigeria’s prison system.
Prison sources told SaharaReporters that Sowore is being housed in a cell with inmates diagnosed with tuberculosis. According to the sources, one of the inmates recently died, while another is battling spinal tuberculosis.
The development comes amid growing concerns over healthcare conditions at the correctional facility, following reports of recent inmate deaths allegedly linked to delayed medical treatment.
"Sowore has been confined in a Kuje Prison cell alongside inmates suffering from tuberculosis. One of the affected prisoners died only last Saturday," a source said.
