In a statement by the Okah family, the Southern Ijaw Local Government Area of Bayelsa State expresses great concern over the continued inhuman incarceration and man-induced deteriorating mental health of their son, Charles Oyintombra Okah a.k.a. Billy Bones, C.E.O. Tombra Life Support, a medical Specialty Company established in 1985.
"Before Charles Okah's arrest, he was a successful businessman/philanthropist in mental and physical top shape even after a donor Nephrectomy (donation of his left kidney) made 31 years earlier to his late mother, Mrs Helen Ama Okah of blessed memory.
"During an earlier visit to Kuje Prison made by his wife, Mrs Angela Uchechi Okah, Charles Okah had informed her of his adverse reaction to a certain medication being forcefully administered on him by the Kuje Prisons Clinic despite his complaints.
The drug, known as Epilim 200 (sodium valproate or ESV) was prescribed by Professor Bwala, a consultant Neurologist at the National Hospital, Abuja (NHA) to treat the damage to Charles Okah's neurological system caused by exposure to high level of fumigant chemicals, when Charles Okah and his cell mates were locked up inside the cell that was being fumigated and which led to the subsequent death of Francis Osuwo.
"Our research, however, revealed that sodium valpoate (ESV) which was administered in 200mg dosage thrice daily to him, is a medication primarily for epilepsy. Charles Okah is not epileptic nor is there a family history of epilepsy.
"A fellow inmate in a single cell block where Charles okah has been languishing in solitary confinement for 3 years, confirmed that he had complained to one Dr Ajayi of the Kuje Prison Clinic severally concerning the serious side effects the drug was having on him; listing some of them as hallucinations, memory loss, severe headaches, confusion and bed wetting.
"The side effects raised by Charles Okah is clearly stated by the manufacturers of the drug for which intake ought to have been discontinued, instead this systematic poisoning of his mind was allowed to continue unabated for a cruelly long period of time.
"A source working in the Kuje Prison Clinic( KPC) leaked out the information that curiously, they were instructed at a point to stop recording Charles Okah's daily intake of ESV, even though the medication was still being administered to him, but could record the other medication such as Amlodopine 10 mg administered for controlling his blood pressure whose brand recommended by the NHA was substituted.
"We suspect strongly that the Nigerian Prison service (NPS), with an antecedence for poisoning political prisoners through orders from above, have deliberately and systematically poisoned Charles Okah into becoming an imbecile.
"Finally, we urge the Nigeria Medical Association (NMA) and the Human Rights Watch to carry out an independent probe on all parties involved in this shameful and diabolic plot."
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