FG INVESTIGATIVE PANEL UNCOVERS DETAILS OF 33 DEATHS IN NSCDC CUSTODY

The Federal Government’s Independent Investigative Committee probing the deaths of detainees in the custody of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps in Niger State has identified 33 deceased persons, including children aged 11 and 12.

The identities were documented in a master register compiled by the committee investigating the deaths at the NSCDC facility in Minna. The panel is chaired by Jonathan Kure, a former Deputy Director-General of the Department of State Services.

The register contains the names and ages of the deceased, their arrest dates, detention location, identification details, post-mortem records and documented causes of death.

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The youngest victim listed is Uzaifa Aliyu, aged 11. Two other children, Abdulsalam Samaila, also known as Ismail, and Mohammad Sani Nasir, were both aged 12.

According to Section 6.1 of the committee’s report, the identities of the 33 detainees were established through arrest and detention records, as well as testimonies.

The register indicates that the deaths occurred between September 16 and 17, 2026, with the NSCDC Niger State Command listed as the detention location for all the deceased.

The committee’s overall findings attributed the deaths to acute hypoxic respiratory failure, also described as environmental asphyxia, aggravated by heat stress and dehydration in an overcrowded cell.

However, the report distinguished between its overall findings and the individual records of the deceased.

Environmental asphyxia was listed as the provisional cause of death in three cases, while the causes of death for the remaining detainees were generally recorded as undetermined because post-mortem examinations were not conducted.

The three detainees whose records listed environmental asphyxia as a provisional cause of death were Emmanuel Emeka, 25; Kabiru Suleiman, aged between 14 and 16; and Idris Haruna, 30.

Emeka was arrested on September 12, while Suleiman and Haruna were arrested on September 16.

Their records indicate that post-mortem examinations were conducted on September 21 and that all three remained in the morgue at the time of documentation.

The remaining 30 detainees were recorded as buried, with their individual causes of death listed as undetermined.

FULL LIST OF THE 33 DECEASED DETAINEES

The following names, ages and arrest details were extracted from the committee’s master register:

1. Emmanuel Emeka, 25 — Arrested on September 12, 2026. His father, Emmanuel Onyenaucheya, was listed for identification. A DNA sample was collected, and a post-mortem examination was conducted on September 21. Provisional cause of death: environmental asphyxia. Status: in the morgue.

2. Kabiru Suleiman, 14–16 — Arrested on September 16, 2026. His cousin, Isiaku Usman, was listed for identification. A DNA sample was collected, and a post-mortem examination was conducted on September 21. Provisional cause of death: environmental asphyxia. Status: in the morgue.

3. Idris Haruna, 30 — Arrested on September 16, 2026. Initially recorded as “John Doe”, he was subsequently identified through arrest and detention records. A DNA sample was collected, but no reference sample was available at the time of documentation. A post-mortem examination was conducted on September 21. Provisional cause of death: environmental asphyxia. Status: in the morgue.

4. Mu’awiya Abdulkareem, 23 — Arrested on September 16, 2026. His father, Abdulkareem Mami, was listed for identification. He was visually identified. No post-mortem examination was conducted, and the cause of death was undetermined. Status: buried.

5. Sani Yakubu (Isiyaku), 25 — Arrested on September 16, 2026. His uncle, Usman Adamu, was listed for identification. He was visually identified. No post-mortem examination was conducted, and the cause of death was undetermined. Status: buried.

6. Safiyanu Abdullahi, 24 — Arrested on September 16, 2026. His brother, Umar Jubril, was listed for identification. He was visually identified. No post-mortem examination was conducted, and the cause of death was undetermined. Status: buried.

7. Safiyanu Abubakar, 16 — Arrested on September 16, 2026. His father, Samaila Umar, was listed for identification. He was visually identified. No post-mortem examination was conducted, and the cause of death was undetermined. Status: buried.

8. Ibrahim Sani (Salihu), 17 — Arrested on September 15, 2026. His father, Sani Danbauchi, was listed for identification. No post-mortem examination was conducted, and the cause of death was undetermined. Status: buried.

9. Abdulsalam Samaila (Ismail), 12 — Arrested on September 15, 2026. His father, Samaila Suleiman, was listed for identification. He was visually identified. No post-mortem examination was conducted, and the cause of death was undetermined. Status: buried.

10. Fahad Sa’adu, 16 — Arrested on September 15, 2026. His father, Sa’adu Mohammed, was listed for identification. He was visually identified. No post-mortem examination was conducted, and the cause of death was undetermined. Status: buried.

11. Ahmad Aliyu, 19 — Arrested on September 15, 2026. His uncle, Umar Abdullahi, was listed for identification. He was visually identified. No post-mortem examination was conducted, and the cause of death was undetermined. Status: buried.

12. Safiyu Abdullahi Lado, 18 — Arrested on September 16, 2026. His Islamic teacher, Khamisu Mallam Hassan, was listed for identification. No post-mortem examination was conducted, and the cause of death was undetermined. Status: buried.

13. Suleiman Lawal, 15 — Arrested on September 16, 2026. His father, Lawal Mohammed, was listed for identification. No post-mortem examination was conducted, and the cause of death was undetermined. Status: buried.

14. Usman Abdullahi, 18 — Arrested on September 16, 2026. His father, Abdullahi Usman, was listed for identification. No post-mortem examination was conducted, and the cause of death was undetermined. Status: buried.

15. Ibrahim Musa, 17 — Arrested on September 16, 2026. His father, Musa Aliyu, was listed for identification. No post-mortem examination was conducted, and the cause of death was undetermined. Status: buried.

16. Abubakar Musa, 17 — Arrested on September 16, 2026. His father, Musa Aliyu, was listed for identification. No post-mortem examination was conducted, and the cause of death was undetermined. Status: buried.

17. Abdullahi Mudassir, 19 — Arrested on September 16, 2026. His brother, Abubakar Buhari, was listed for identification. No post-mortem examination was conducted, and the cause of death was undetermined. Status: buried.

18. Samuel Philip Sambo, 18 — Arrested on September 16, 2026. His father, Philip Sambo, was listed for identification. No post-mortem examination was conducted, and the cause of death was undetermined. Status: buried.

19. Yusuf Nasir, 17 — Arrested on September 16, 2026. His father, Nasir Mohammed, was listed for identification. No post-mortem examination was conducted, and the cause of death was undetermined. Status: buried.

20. Mohammad Sani Nasir, 12 — Arrested on September 15, 2026. His father was recorded as Husseini Mohammed, although the report noted that an emirate list gave his mother’s name as Aisha Nasiru. No post-mortem examination was conducted, and the cause of death was undetermined. Status: buried.

21. Abdulbari Suleiman, 16 — Arrested on September 16, 2026. His brother, Abdulrahman Sani, was listed for identification. No post-mortem examination was conducted, and the cause of death was undetermined. Status: buried.

22. Isiya Hamisu, 22 — Arrested on September 16, 2026. His brother, Abdullahi Aliyu, was listed for identification. No post-mortem examination was conducted, and the cause of death was undetermined. Status: buried.

23. Usman Ibrahim, 20 — Arrested on September 16, 2026. His uncle, Sani Idris, was listed for identification. No post-mortem examination was conducted, and the cause of death was undetermined. Status: buried.

24. Suleiman Dantala, 23 — Arrested on September 16, 2026. His father, Dantala Tanko, was listed for identification. No post-mortem examination was conducted, and the cause of death was undetermined. Status: buried.

25. Sani Taminu, 20 — Arrested on September 16, 2026. His father was recorded as Tanimu Garba. No post-mortem examination was conducted, and the cause of death was undetermined. Status: buried.

26. Uzaifa Aliyu, 11 — Arrested on September 15, 2026. His mother, Rashida Aliyu, was listed for identification. No post-mortem examination was conducted, and the cause of death was undetermined. Status: buried.

27. Abubakar Naibi, 57 — Arrested on September 15, 2026. No identifying relative was listed. No post-mortem examination was conducted, and the cause of death was undetermined. Status: buried.

28. Abdullahi Abubakar, 15 — Arrested on September 16, 2026. No identifying relative was listed. No post-mortem examination was conducted, and the cause of death was undetermined. Status: buried.

29. Bisalla Adamu, 17 — Arrested on September 16, 2026. No identifying relative was listed. No post-mortem examination was conducted, and the cause of death was undetermined. Status: buried.

30. Sani Isyaku, 18 — Arrested on September 16, 2026. No identifying relative was listed. No post-mortem examination was conducted, and the cause of death was undetermined. Status: buried.

31. Musa Ibrahim, 18 — Arrested on September 16, 2026. No identifying relative was listed. No post-mortem examination was conducted, and the cause of death was undetermined. Status: buried.

32. Idris Bashir, 25 — Arrested on September 16, 2026. No identifying relative was listed. No post-mortem examination was conducted, and the cause of death was undetermined. Status: buried.

33. Usman Haruna, 18 — Arrested on September 16, 2026. No identifying relative was listed. No post-mortem examination was conducted, and the cause of death was undetermined. Status: buried.