Agada’s death: NSCDC sacks two operatives, clears mining commander

The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) has cleared the Commander of its Mining Marshals unit, Assistant Commandant of Corps (ACC) John Onoja Attah, of allegations linking him to the diversion of N2 cardinal and an alleged cover-up surrounding the decease of an operative, Deputy Superintendent of Corps (DSC) Levi Agada, during an cognition astatine a mining site.

The clearance came arsenic the Corps announced disciplinary measures against 79 personnel, including the dismissal of 2 Mining Marshals operatives for unlawfully supplying firearms to amerciable miners.

The Commandant-General, Ahmed Audi, represented by the Corps’ spokesperson, Babawale Afolabi, disclosed this connected Wednesday.

He said investigations carried retired by the Corps recovered nary grounds implicating Onoja oregon the absorption of the Mining Marshals unit.

Audi said broad investigations had cleared Onoja, the pb prosecutor, and different members of the absorption squad of immoderate alleged complicity successful the allegations that had trailed the unit.

“Allegations suggesting different were recovered to beryllium mendacious and without factual basis,” helium said.

The clarification comes months aft allegations circulated linking the Mining Marshals commandant and members of his squad to the arguable decease of the serviceman during an cognition successful Nasarawa State, arsenic good arsenic claims of a N2 cardinal diversion.

Onoja h...