Coalition defends NSCDC chief over Minna deaths

Rejects calls for Audi’s removal, urges probe to run its course
The Centre for Justice for Common Nigeria, under the Coalition of Nigerian Civil Society Organisations, has rejected calls for the removal of the Commandant-General of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), Professor Ahmed Abubakar Audi, over the deaths of 37 suspected illegal miners in the Corps’ custody in Minna, Niger State.
The coalition, in a statement responding to a call by lawyer and human rights activist Hamza N. Dantani for the termination of Audi’s tenure, described the demand as premature and argued that responsibility should be established through investigation and due process rather than publi...