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The independent ministerial committee investigating the deaths of 33 persons in the custody of the Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) in Minna, Niger State, has recommended N1.4 billion in compensation for the victims\u2019 families and survivors. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The committee also recommended the dismissal of personnel whose actions directly led to the deaths, describing the incident as \u201centirely preventable\u201d. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Chairman of the committee, Jonathan Kure, presented the report to the Minister of Interior, Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo, on Tuesday in Abuja. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
In the executive summary, the committee proposed N30 million for each of the 33 bereaved families and N10 million for each of the 41 survivors, bringing the total compensation package to N1.4 billion. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
It also recommended educational support for the dependants of deceased victims, medical rehabilitation for survivors, psychological support for affected families and a formal apology by the Federal Government. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The committee further called for administrative sanctions against personnel who failed in their duties but whose actions or inactions were not directly responsible for the deaths. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
On the cause of the fatalities, the report stated that \u201cfatalities resulted from environmental asphyxia caused by prolonged confinement in a severely overcrowded cell aggravated by heat stress and dehydration.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n
It also found that the operation leading to the suspects\u2019 arrest was conducted without an \u201coperational order\u201d or approval from the NSCDC national headquarters. The committee recommended reforms within the corps to address the lapses that contributed to the incident.(Leadership Newspapers)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
\u00a0 The independent ministerial committee investigating the deaths of 33 persons in the custody of the Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) in Minna, Niger State, has recommended N1.4 billion in compensation for the victims\u2019 families and survivors. The committee also recommended the dismissal of personnel whose actions directly led to the deaths, describing the incident as \u201centirely preventable\u201d. Chairman of the committee, Jonathan Kure, presented the report to the Minister of Interior, Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo, on Tuesday in Abuja. In the executive summary, the committee proposed N30 million for each of the 33 bereaved families and N10 million for each of the 41 survivors, bringing the total compensation package to N1.4 billion. It also recommended educational support for the dependants of deceased victims, medical rehabilitation for survivors, psychological support for affected families and a formal apology by the Federal Government. The committee further called for administrative sanctions against personnel who failed in their duties but whose actions or inactions were not directly responsible for the deaths. On the cause of the fatalities, the report stated that \u201cfatalities resulted from environmental asphyxia caused by prolonged confinement in a severely overcrowded cell aggravated by heat stress and dehydration.\u201d It also found that the operation leading to the suspects\u2019 arrest was conducted without an \u201coperational order\u201d or approval from the NSCDC national headquarters. The committee recommended reforms within the corps to address the lapses that contributed to the incident.(Leadership Newspapers)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newshuntermedia.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newshuntermedia.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newshuntermedia.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newshuntermedia.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newshuntermedia.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.newshuntermedia.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15,"href":"https:\/\/www.newshuntermedia.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13\/revisions\/15"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newshuntermedia.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/14"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newshuntermedia.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newshuntermedia.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newshuntermedia.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}