NSCDC detains, parades 24 personnel over deaths of 37 illegal miners in Niger

The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) has detained 24 of its unit implicit the deaths of 37 suspected amerciable miners successful Niger State.

The officers see the suspended Niger State Commandant, Commandant Subaru Siyaka Aniviye, and 23 different personnel. They were paraded astatine the NSCDC office successful Abuja connected Sunday.

The Corps said the fig of unit nether probe had accrued from 21 to 24 aft 3 further officers were identified and suspended.

NSCDC spokesman, Assistant Commandant Babawale Afolabi, said each the affected officers and men from the Niger State Command had been taken into protective custody astatine the Corps office since September 17.

He said they were being questioned and subjected to administrative disciplinary procedures up of further investigations by the Presidential Independent Investigation Committee and different panels.

The spokesperson said the NSCDC Commandant General, Professor Ahmed Abubakar Audi, had ordered the Corps’ emblem to beryllium flown astatine half-mast successful each commands and formations for 3 days from Sunday, September 20, arsenic a people of mourning.

The Corps said the determination was besides intended to amusement its disapproval of the incidental and its determination to region unit recovered blameworthy of misconduct.

Afolabi quoted the Corps arsenic saying, “as a Corps built connected integrity, professionalism, discipline...