{"id":18028,"date":"2026-09-27T20:59:48","date_gmt":"2026-09-27T20:59:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/?p=18028"},"modified":"2026-09-27T21:04:24","modified_gmt":"2026-09-27T21:04:24","slug":"18028","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/2026\/09\/27\/18028\/","title":{"rendered":"Death of 37 suspected illegal Miners:11 member of Judicial commission of inquiry set for inauguration on Tuesday by govrrnor Bago"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BY UTHMAN BABA-NASEER,MINNA<\/p>\n<p>Sequel to the constitution of the Judicial commission of inquiry by the governor Mohammed Umar Bago, to investigate the death of the 37 alleged illegal miners in the custody of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC),the eleven member of the commission will commence their inaugural sitting Tuesday,29th, September 2026.<\/p>\n<p>This was contained in a statement issued to Journalists in Minna by the Secretary of the Commission Mohammed Aliyu Kutigi Esq.<\/p>\n<p>According to the statement,the inaugural sitting is expected to commence by 10 o&#8217;clock in the morning at the  hall of the Teachers Professional Institute,along F.flayout by Tayi Junction in Minna Niger State<\/p>\n<p>The Judicial Commission of Inquiry which is headed by a Minna High Court Judge,Justice Mohammed Adishetu Mohammed of the Minna High Court ,number four,the statement requested member of the public to attend urging  member of the public to submit their memo to the commission.<\/p>\n<p>Governor Umar Bago,while inaugurating the Judiciary Commission of Inquiry  charged  members of the Commission to discharge their  duty with all sincerity and the fear of God.<\/p>\n<p>He reminded them that the task ahead of them is enomouse and herculious urging them to put the fear of God in the discharge of their duty.<\/p>\n<p>Governor Bago stated that the Commission which is saddled with the responsibility of getting to the root course of the incident has four weeks to operate and conclude it&#8217;s findings.<\/p>\n<p>He informed members of the Commission that is not vested with the powers relating to look into the administrative conduct and possible punishment of the officers but rather to look into the act that was committed within the purview and powers of government of Niger State.<\/p>\n<p>The Commission\u2019s terms of reference,according to governor Bago,include to look into the arrest and essential legality of the of the custody and treatment of the victims while in custody and the circumstance  of their deaths.<\/p>\n<p>It is also to look at the responsibility and accountability of officers,medical foresenic investigation and evidence,and make it&#8217;s findings and recommendations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BY UTHMAN BABA-NASEER,MINNA Sequel to the constitution of the Judicial commission of inquiry by the governor Mohammed Umar Bago, to investigate the death of the 37 alleged illegal miners in the custody of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC),the eleven member of the commission will commence their inaugural sitting Tuesday,29th, September 2026. This [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17687,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18028","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18028"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18028\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18031,"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18028\/revisions\/18031"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}