By Uthman Baba-Naseer,Mina<\/p>\n
Assistant Director in the Federal Ministry of Solid Minerals in Niger State, Hajiya Halima Omolara Ibrahim, has told the Justice Mohammed Mohammed Judicial Commission of Inquiry how she was beaten and humiliated by the operatives of the Mining Marshal under the leadership of SC Jibrin Mohammed.<\/p>\n
She told the Commission that while on her official function to one of the Mining sites in Kwakuti in Paikoro local government area, the operatives of the Mining Marshal,invaded the site and effected the arrest of the artisanal miners on the site along with herself. <\/p>\n
\u201c Even identifying myself with my official identity card,they kept deaf ears and they refused to listen to me,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
The assistant director who was testifying before the commission as a witness, revealed that on the 17th, of April 2026 in the course of her duty in mining sites in Kwakuti,men of the Mining Marshal after she was subjected to all manners of tortures she was bundled in their van taken to their headquarters she was detained from six p.m. till eleven pm before her released.<\/p>\n
According to Hajiya Halima Ibrahim, due to the beating she received from the operatives she sustained some bruises on her face and tore her clothes before she bundled into their van and took her to their headquarters.<\/p>\n
\u201c I was beaten,molested,humiliated strangulated and beaten to a state of pulp and dragged on the ground before they bundled me into their waiting van and took me to their headquarters in Minna where I was detained from six to eleven pm\u201d she told <\/p>\n
She stated that her function as assistant director in the Federal Ministry of Solid Mineral and head of artisanal miners in Niger State, included registration of artisanal miners,supervising the operational activities of the artisanal miners,and enforcing their activities.<\/p>\n
The assistant director disclosed that as part of her official function in the State a total of four hundred artisanal miners have been registered by her office to carry out their mining activities along with license miners in the state.<\/p>\n
Testifying further,the assistant director stated that the enforcement unit of the ministry in the state,has established a good working relationship with the Mining Marshal to partner in ensuring the enforcement of the activities of illegal miners in the state.<\/p>\n
\u201c To my greatest surprise,the operatives of the Mining Marshal will carry out their operations to the mining site on their own without involving my office.<\/p>\n
\u201c I will just receive a phone call informing me that the mining marshall is on a mining site harassing the miners. Some of these miners are licensed to carry out their mining. Yet,they still go about harassing them on the site\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
Testifying on the death of the 37 suspected illegal miners in the custody of the NSCDC, Hajiya Halima Ibrahim,told the Commission that she was not aware of the incident, \u201c but the death of the 37 suspected miners was made public due to the magnitude.<\/p>\n
She explained that her office is not aware of the enforcement that led to the death of the 37 suspected illegal miners in the custody of the NSCDC between 16th to the 17th of September 2026.<\/p>\n
\u201c Men of the NSCDC have the records of alleged killing miners on mining sites without anybody knowing. They have killed miners in Korokpa area,they have killed in Kwakuti, they have killed in Garafini area of Borgu local government. <\/p>\n
\u201c All these alleged killings went unreported. The death of the 37 suspected illegal miners in their custody became public,because it happened in their office,and there is no way they can cover it up\u201d she further told the commission.<\/p>\n
Alleging that,the operatives of the mining Marshal,apart from their alleged killings,they extort money ranging from six to seven million naira and their mined golds<\/p>\n
Hajiya Halima Omolara Ibrahim tendered some documents as evidences to buttress her claims before the Commission which were all admitted by the Commission.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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