@nationalfocus008: Fresh facts have shown that the Bola Tinubu-led presidency backed the detention of human rights activist and African Action Congress (AAC) presidential candidate, Omoyele Sowore, in a highly infectious cell block at the Kuje Medium Security Custodial Centre in Abuja.  Top sources informed SaharaReporters on Saturday that the Controller-General of the Nigerian Correctional Service (NCoS), Mr. Sylvester Nwakuche, and the Director General of the Department of State Services (DSS), Adeola Oluwatosin Ajayi, received commendations from President Tinubu’s office on Sowore's detention with the infected inmates.  According to the sources, officials within the presidency praised the security chiefs for "doing the needful" by keeping the vocal activist in Custody Block 4 — a section of the facility heavily populated by inmates battling active tuberculosis(TB) infections. "Two of the TB patients have died and a third is battling with his life while 37 others are undergoing treatment in the last three months but several of them have stopped treatment since Sowore came to the Kuje correctional centre," one of the sources revealed.  "They are starved of medicine by the order of the prison authorities in Abuja in connivance with the DG DSS and the Controller-General of prison whose tenure had already expired.  "The inmates could be heard coughing all night in the crowded prison block where the sewage had also been left overflowing since Sowore arrived," another top source revealed.   Sowore's Kuje Detention Raises Alarm After Two Inmate Deaths, 37 Reportedly Undergoing Tuberculosis Treatment Since December 2025 SaharaReporters had on Friday reported that Sowore came under fresh health concerns following his remand at the Kuje Correctional Centre in Abuja, where reports indicate he was being held under conditions that had drawn renewed attention to healthcare and disease management within the facility.

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Sunday 28 June 2026 19:32:31 GMT