Nigeria Prisons not taking Senator Dariye abroad for treatment – spokesman

The Nigeria Prisons Service has said it would 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 Kuje Prison, Abuja, is getting the best care at the
University of Abuja Teaching Hospital, Gwagwalada, where he was
being treated.

The NPS spokesman, Francis Enobore, informed newsmen on Monday,
that doctors treating the Senator have not referred him to a
foreign hospital, stressing that he was in good hands at the
hospital.

Enobore, however, declined to reveal the health status of the
convicted ex-governor, saying he had no idea of his ailment.

He said, “I don’t know his (Dariye’s) ailment, it is only his
doctor who could 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 could get at the 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 last December.

He was convicted by a Federal Capital Territory High Court
presided over by Justice Adebukola Banjoko on a 23-count charge of
diverting and laundering N1.126 billion Ecological Funds belonging
to the Plateau State Government while in office as the
governor.