By Uthman Baba-Naseer<\/p>\n
The Justice Mohammed Mohammed Judicial Commission of Inquiry has been told that a total of thirty three Corpse of the Miners that died in the Custody of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corpse (NSCDC) were deposited at the Minna General Hospital against the thirty seven earlier reported in the Media.<\/p>\n
A Private Mortician in-charge of Minna General Mortuary Dr. Chinweokwu Alaribe stated this while testifying before the Judicial Commission at its resumed sitting on Tuesday in Minna..<\/p>\n
He explained that the corpse that were brought to the hospital were thirty three as against the thirty seven that were widely reported in the media,stating that\u201d I’m only aware that thirty three Corpse were brought in not aware of any thirty seven as reported.<\/p>\n
\u201c I cannot count the corpse that was not in Mortuary,I only know that thirty three Corpse were brought to me\u201d he said..<\/p>\n
According to the Mortician,the Mortuary is being manage by a private individual known as Respectful care Martician and he is a staff .<\/p>\n
Dr. Alaribe told the nine members of the Commission that on the 17th September,2027, a total of thirty three corpses were brought in to the Minna General Hospital morgue in two batches in an ambulance.<\/p>\n
He stated that the corpse were accompanied to the hospital by two nurses from the medical unit of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corpse (NSCDC).<\/p>\n
He gave the names of the Nurses as Nurse Mariam and Nurse Hauwa of the NSCDC Medical unit in Minna.<\/p>\n
Dr. Alaribe who is also known and called \u201cDr. Miller\u201d told the Commission that when the thirty three Corpses were brought and deposited at the open floor of the Minna General Hospital,it was noticed that some fluid and blood were ouzing out from their nose and mouth and some part of their skin were pilling.<\/p>\n
He further told the Commission that out of the thirty three Corpse, twenty were released to their relatives for burial in the evening of that particular day,while ten were released in two diferen day and three of the corpses were still deposited in the mortuary yet to be released.<\/p>\n
Answering question from the Director of Public Prosecution in the office of the Attorney General of Niger State, Mallam Nuraini Usman Baba Esq, on why he released the twenty corpses to their relatives,Dr Abaribe said,\u201d I released the corpses because the crowd were forcing themselves in to the hospital to the point that they even destroying the gate.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Mortician disclosed three Corpse of Kabir Suleiman,Samuel Sambo and Emeka Emmanuel are still in the Morgue yet to be received by the relatives.<\/p>\n
He further stated that the three corpses were kept on the order of the Presidential panel of inquiry that will come to inspect the corpse<\/p>\n
The disclosed that the sum of one million and (N1.5m)five hundred thousand naira were deposited to the hospital by the NSCDC through Nurse Mariam being the amounth for ambulance that conveyed the Corps from their headquarters to the general hospital<\/p>\n
Testifying earlier,the Deputy Director Land and Survey in the state Ministry of Land and Housings Umar Nagya, the Commission that the Mining site within M.I Wushishi Housing Estate,is a private layout fully registered with the Ministry of Land under Minna town planing and titled as MTP 163.<\/p>\n
He said is owned by Gwadabawa and sold to a private individual now El-Amin University site registered as NGIS 15195 now owned by El-Amin University.<\/p>\n
He confirmed that the Ministry of Land is aware of the Mining activities in the area but \u201cnot in official capacity\u201d <\/p>\n
He further confirmed that the Ministry has severally received complaint from some individuals on the activities of miners in the area stating that for the fact that the Miners in their data base do reference them to ministry of solid minerals and Niger State Urban control under the Niger State Urban Development Board.<\/p>\n
Three witnesses separately testified before the Commission,which, included,the North Central Coordinator of the Mining Cadestral office Engr. Henry Temidayo Bolawale,the Assistant General Manager (AGM) Service Zuma Mineral Development, Dr. Abubakar Abubakar, and Director Solid Minerals in the State Ministry of Mineral Resources, Mr. Israel Kolo<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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