Niger miners’ deaths: Committee recommends N1.4bn compensation, dismissal of personnel

By Omeiza Ajayi & Enitan Abdultawab
The independent ministerial committee investigating the recent deaths of 33 persons in the custody of the Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps NSCDC in Minna, Niger State, has recommended compensation amounting to N1.4 billion to families of the victims.
In the Executive Summary by the chairman of the Committee, Jonathan Kure, on Tuesday in Abuja when he presented the report to the Minister of Interior, Hon. Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo, the committee, which said the deaths were “entirely preventable”, also recommended summary dismissal of personnel whose actions directly caused the deaths of the suspects.
It partly reads, “The committee recommends a r...