The Suspended former NSCDC Commandant  apologises to dead miners’ Families 

The Suspended former NSCDC Commandant  apologises to dead miners’ Families

The Suspended former Commandant Of Nigeria Security and Civil Defense Corps Niger State Command Siaka Suberu Aniviye has apologized to the families of detained Miners who died in Custody.

The suspended former Commandant tendered his apology during his testimony before the Justice Mohammed Mohammed Commission of Inquiry Set up by the Niger State Government holding in Minna

The Niger State Commission of Inquiry with the mandate to investigate the circumstances surrounding the deaths of the 37 suspected illegal miners while in the custody of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defense Corps in its second sitting heard the testimony of the suspended former Commandant,Siaka Subairu Aniviye

The suspended Commandant during his testimony admitted that the incident could have been avoided describing it as a costly mistake and appealed to the bereaved families to forgive him.

NSCDC State Legal officer ACC Stephen Tsado and the Command Nurse Maryam Etang were also among those that testified during the sitting.

Earlier the commission led by the Chairman Justice Mohammed Mohammed had visited the Minna General Hospital mortuary where the victims were kept with three corpses still unclaimed