Lawan Mohammed is distraught over the death of his 25-year-old son Sulieman who was found dead in the custody of a Nigerian security agency in the north-central region of the country.
He said Sulieman was a motorcycle mechanic in Niger state and was on his way home when he and some friends were arrested by personnel from the Nigeria Security and Civil Defense Corps, or NSCDC.
“I went there the following morning to give him food, only to hear that he was dead,” Mohammed said.
On Thursday, Sulieman was found dead in a cell of the NSCDC along with 36 other detainees.
A total of 67 people suspected of being miners working illegally were held in a cell, and 37 of them probably died of suffocation, Niger state Gov. Umar Bago said Friday. The suspects were arrested between Tuesday and Wednesday.
The security agency on Thursday blamed the deaths on
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