The counsel to the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, has raised concerns over the alleged outbreak of tuberculosis at the Department of State Services (DSS) headquarters in Abuja.
Aloy Ejimakor, the IPOB leader’s special counsel, revealed that many detainees at the facility have tested positive for the disease.
Ejimakor has called on the Nigerian government to alert the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Red Cross Society to intervene and avoid an epidemic.
Nnamdi Kanu’s brother has also expressed worry over the alleged outbreak of tuberculosis at the facility.
He wondered if it was a deliberate ploy to infest his brother with the disease and called for urgent action to avert an epidemic of infectious disease.
It can be recalled that Kanu had first raised the alarm of tuberculosis at the facility when he said that an inmate suffering from the disease was relocated close to his cell block.
According to him, the infected inmate was arrested in Ohafia in September 2022 and transferred to the DSS facility.
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