Arise News anchor, Rufai Oseni, has said that any investigation by the government into the death of 37 suspected miners in Niger State is a cover-up.
Rufai made this assertion on Monday during Arise
Television’s ‘Morning Show’.
Recall that the 37 suspected illegal miners died in the
custody of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, NSCDC, in Niger State.
The development has generated outrage from different
quarters of Nigeria with some requesting an independent and transparent probe.
The NSCDC had stated that the detainees died following a
suspected outbreak of disease, noting that their bodies were deposited at the
General Hospital in Minna for medical examination to establish the actual cause
of death.
Reacting, Rufai said, “I welcome the need for
investigations, but the fact remains that if the investigations are carried out
by government agencies, nothing will come out of them.
“My question is, who are the people involved in this mining?
Because it takes people with substantial financial resources to engage in
mining. Who owns the mining site?”
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