Man working in mass graves
While speaking when he appeared before the judicial commission
which was set up by the Kaduna state government, Namadi Musa, Kaduna
state director-general of Interfaith agency, on Monday, said he spent
five hours conducting mass burial for victims of the December clash
involving soldiers and some members of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria
(IMN) also known as Shiites.
He said during the probe of the clash that the burial took place
between 12:30am and 5:30am on December 14, adding that he counted the
bodies as they were being put in the mass grave. He also disclosed that
they comprised of 191 from the army depot in Zaria and another 156 from
the Ahmadu Bello University Teaching Hostpital (ABUTH) in Shika, Zaria.
Musa who revealed that the bodies were interred in the Mando area
of Kaduna metropolis, said that one Ogundare, an army major, led three
military trucks loaded with corpses, while he (Musa), had five Mercedes
Benz trucks loaded with corpses from ABUTH, adding that 50 soldiers who
accompanied Ogundare off loaded the corpses into the grave.
Adamu Ahmed, head of surgery of ABUTH, alleged that on December 13,
the army, along with some policemen invaded the premises of the
hospital and took over the mortuary, adding that they chased out workers
from the mortuary and prevented access to the place until the next day
when they left.
Though the army claimed that only seven person were killed in the
incident, which happened after an alleged attempt on the life of Tukur
Buratai, chief of army staff, the sect has published the list of 705 of
its members who they claimed were killed by soldiers.
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