Niger miners’ deaths: Panel assures families of fair investigation

The 10-member Independent Investigative Committee acceptable up by the Federal Government to analyse the deaths of 37 artisanal miners successful the custody of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) has assured the victims’ families that it volition behaviour a just and autarkic investigation.

The committee gave the assurance erstwhile its chairman, retired Deputy Director-General of the Department of State Services (DSS), Jonathan Kure, led members connected a courtesy sojourn to Niger State Governor Umaru Bago astatine the Government House successful Minna.

Kure said the committee had arrived successful Niger State to statesman the duty fixed to it by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu.

He said the aesculapian squad attached to the committee had already started its enactment soon aft the sheet was inaugurated.

He said the aboriginal commencement of the aesculapian introspection was important to sphere grounds and found facts that could assistance explicate the circumstances surrounding the miners’ deaths.

Kure promised the families of the victims that the committee would stay autarkic and grip the probe fairly.

He said the sheet would found what went incorrect and find work wherever necessary, portion ensuring that radical who were wrongly linked to the incidental were treated fairly.

“We wil...