By Uthman Baba-Naseer,Minna<\/p>\n
The National President of the Nigeria Union of Mining Workers (NUMW),Comrade Musa Adamu Nasiru has alleged the head of Mining Marshal of the Nigeria Security Defence Corps (NSCDC) in Niger State SC Jibrin Mohammed of extortion and diverting mined gold to his personal use.<\/p>\n
The National President also alleged that the mined gold seized by the head of the Marshal will be sold and diverted the money realized from the sales of the seized gold to his personal pocket.<\/p>\n
Comrade Adamu Nasiru who was testifying before the Justice Mohammed Mohammed Judicial Commission of Inquiry investigating the death of 37 suspected illegal miners in the custody of NSCDC in Minna,Tuesday stated that the operational activities of the mining Marshal undermined the core duty of the NSCDC.<\/p>\n
He described his Union working relationship with the state Command of the NSCDC and the Mining Marshal in the state as cordial stating that \u201c but their operational activities particularly the Mining Marshal could best be described as undermining their duty\u201d<\/p>\n
According to the National President,as a linceced miner,whenever miners were arrested on mining site,he requested for their bail from the suspended state Commandant he will refused to grant them bail.<\/p>\n
\u201c The suspended state Commandant response to my request for their bail, was that he has the order to detain them as long as he wish before arraigning them in Court for prosecution\u201d he told the Commission.<\/p>\n
Speaking further,Comrade Nasiru disclosed that he was told of the death of the Miners in the NSCDC custody by the Commissioner for Mineral resources Qasim Mohammed Danjuma and he delegated some of his members to the NSCDC for confirmation.<\/p>\n
\u201c Out of the people that died in the custody ten of my members were in detention. Six died and four of them survived\u201d he added.<\/p>\n
In his testimonies, the Niger State Chairman of Miners Association of Nigeria,(MAN), Mall. Abdulrazak Yusuf Mohammed told the Commission that as the chairman of the association,he is in-charge of every individual miners,miners cooperative society, artisanal and licenced miners in the state.<\/p>\n
He said his duty is to coordinate the activities of both licenced miners and artisanal miners in Niger State.<\/p>\n
According to him,on the 15th to 17th September,2026 he was in his home town in Borgu, as a titled holder of Wazirin Borgu Kingdom,on a traditional engagement when he received the information of the incident from the Commissioner for Mineral resources Hon. Qasim Danjuma Mohammed.<\/p>\n
\u201c On receiving the information, I put a call to my vice chairman. As an association, I delegated some of my members to ascertain the numbers of those in detention.<\/p>\n
\u201c I was told that 65 people were in detention out of them only seventeen survived.forty eight of them died in the custody\u201d he told the commission.<\/p>\n
He further told the commission,that after ascertaining the figures of the recorded which was put at forty eight,majority of which were from Tunga area of Minna, he submitted a memo,to the Ministerial investigating Committee headed by Rtd director of Department of State Security (DSS),Mr. Jonathan Kure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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