The top of operations, Nigeria Safety and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) Niger State Command, Deputy Commander of Corps John Abraham has narrated how they performed the operation which resulted in the arrest of the 69 miners.
He informed Justice Mohammed Mohammed-led 9 member fee of inquiry that they performed the operation in keeping with the directives of the suspended Niger State commandant of the corps, Siaka Subairu Aniviye.
He maintained that when the arrest they passed over the suspects to the dep. of intelligence and investigation for additional motion.
He mentioned they simply performed the order of the state commandant .
Additionally attesting, the Commissioner for Place of origin Safety in Niger State Mr. Maurice Justin Magaji alleged that the operatives of the NSCDC went past their authentic duty inside their laws of engagement.
He informed the fee that their mode of authentic behavior was once uncivil and that they must have been extra skilled within the discharge in their accountability.
In line with the commissioner, males of the NSCDC want extra orientation of their mode of operation as a safety outfit, declaring that revelations from survivors had been so embarrassing.
“ My lord, the guidelines we won from the survivors in our committee with regards to the style and manner the NSCDC performed their operations may absolute best be described as unprofessional they usually want to be referred to as to reserve,” he mentioned.
He informed the fee that the excesses of the NSCDC of their operational behavior didn’t painting operatives of the NSCDC as a safety outfit as a result of they didn’t function inside the regulation that established the corps.
He showed that at the seventeenth of September 2026, he won a telephone name from the suspended commandant of the NSCDC in Niger State, Siayaka Zubeiru Aniriviye at the dying of the 37 suspected unlawful miners within the custody of the command.
He mentioned that upon the receipt of the document,
“I put a choice to my boss, the governor, at the document I were given from the suspended commandant.
“The governor then directed that their our bodies must be evacuated to the health center,the suspended Commandant then informed me that he wanted some logistics to move them to the health center.
“ I then contacted my everlasting secretary and raised some price range for transporting them to the health center,” the commissioner informed the fee.
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