The Nigeria Correctional Service, which runs the country’s prison system, has ignored a court order and refused to take Tigran Gambaryan, who suffers from malaria and a severe throat infection, to a hospital for treatment, according to his wife and a person familiar with the matter. Instead, he is being treated at a clinic in Kuje prison that is short of supplies and in urgent need of renovation.
Gambaryan’s wife, Yuki Gambaryan, is concerned that her husband’s physical and mental health is deteriorating. “I am extremely shocked and frustrated that the authorities are not allowing him to leave the prison that caused his illness despite clear court instructions to hospitalize him,” said Yuki. Gambaryan collapsed in court on Thursday on the second day of his trial on money laundering charges in the Nigerian capital of Abuja. (DL News)