37 miners’ death: IGP Disu visits Niger, vows full investigation

The Inspector-General of Police, IGP, Rilwan Disu, has visited Niger State Governor, Mohammed Umaru Bago, successful Minna and vowed a afloat probe into the deaths of 37 suspected amerciable miners successful the custody of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, NSCDC.

Disu, who led a constabulary delegation to the Government House on Friday, described the incidental arsenic tragic and assured the politician that the constabulary would permission nary chromatic unturned successful determining what led to the deaths.

He stated, “I americium present this day due to the fact that of the tragic incidental wherever we mislaid the lives of 37 citizens of Niger and of this large state”

“It’s a precise tragic incidental and we privation to guarantee you, Your Excellency, that we volition permission nary chromatic unturned to unravel the concern that led to these deaths.”

Disu said deaths successful custody were a superior substance wrong the purview of the police, peculiarly fixed the fig of victims, adding that the constabulary would enactment with the authorities authorities and different agencies investigating the incident.

He besides appealed for calm pursuing reported attacks connected nationalist and backstage property, assuring residents that constabulary patrols would beryllium intensified crossed Minna and different parts of the state.

Bago, portion receiving the IGP, described the incidental arsenic “very bittersweet and disturbing”, saying the sus...