NPS spokesman told our correspondent on Monday that doctors treating the senator had not referred him to any foreign hospital, noting that he was in good hands.
Joshua Dariye
The Nigeria Prisons Service has said it will not fly out a former Plateau State Governor, Joshua Dariye, who is reportedly suffering from kidney disease for treatment abroad.
The service stated that the senator, who is serving a 10-year jail term in the Kuje Prison, Abuja, was getting the best care at the University of Abuja Teaching Hospital, Gwagwalada, where he had been admitted to.
The NPS spokesman, Francis Enobore, told our correspondent on Monday that doctors treating the senator had not referred him to any foreign hospital, noting that he was in good hands.
Enobore declined to reveal the health status of the convicted ex-governor, saying he had no idea of the nature of his ailment.
He said, “I don’t know his (Dariye’s) ailment, it is only his doctor who can tell us what is wrong with him. But we are not considering flying him out of the country; he is getting the best care he can get at a government hospital and the doctors have not said they cannot take care of him.”
The senator, who represented Plateau Central in the National Assembly, had been hospitalised since December.
He was convicted by a Federal Capital Territory High Court presided over by Justice Adebukola Banjoko on 23 counts of diverting and laundering N1.126bn Ecological Funds belonging to the Plateau State Government while in office as the governor.