Names of 37 suspected illegal miners who died in the custody of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps in Niger State have emerged following the incident in Minna.
The victims were among scores of suspects arrested during operations conducted on September 15 and 16 around the Lt Gen Mohammed Inuwa Wushishi Estate in Minna, the state capital.
Suberu Aniviye, the NSCDC commandant in the state at the time, had said scores of the detained suspects were found dead in the early hours of Thursday following a suspected outbreak of disease.
Following the deaths, the Federal Government suspended the Niger State NSCDC commandant and ordered an investigation into the circumstances surrounding the incident.
In a publication on Monday, the International Human Rights Commission told TheCable that it had compiled a list of the deceased.
Awaisu Giwa, International Peace Ambassador at the IHRC, said the organisation obtained an initial list from the records of the General Hospital, Minna.
“We got the list from the CMD of the general hospital. It was written by the mortuary attendant for us, but we are going to the hospital tomorrow for the list to be on the official letterhead of the hospital,” Giwa said.
He added, “The CMD was the one who instructed the mortuary attendant to give us the names. Some people whose relatives were missing are beginning to report in our office.”
According to the report, four additional names were subsequently provided by relatives of victims whose names were not initially recorded in the hospital list.
Giwa said the list would also be used to facilitate compensation for the families of those who died.
The names listed in the report are:
Ibrahim Sani
Fahad Sa’adu
Abdulsalam Ismail
Abubakar Alhaji
Sani Nasir
Sanusi Khalid
Ahmad Aliyu
Safiyanu Abdullahi
Suleiman Dantala
Idris Haruna
Sani Yakubu
Safiyanu Abubakar
Abdullahi Abubakar
Abubakar Musa
Abdul Mudassir
Suleiman Lawal
Usman Abdullahi
Samuel Sambo
Ibrahim Musa
Yusuf Nasiru
Umar Lawal
Isyaku Amisu
Bissallah Adamu
Abdulbari Suleiman
Shafisu Lado
Usman Ahmad
Usman Ibrahim
Sani Isyaku
Musa Ibrahim
Idris Bashir
Kabiru Suleiman
Emmanuel Emeka
Mu’awiya AbdulKarim
Abdul Gafar Abubakar
Usman Haruna
Yaro Salihu Soba
