BENEDICT Etonu, a middle-aged man of about 50 years has been killed in a landslide that occurred at a Dangote Coal Mines Limited site located in Awoakpali Community, Ankpa Local Government of Kogi State, The ICIR can authoritatively report.

For almost 24 hours, Etonu was buried under mud—his body was found at about 2:28pm on Wednesday while the landslide took place at about 5 pm on Tuesday.

Two heavy-duty machines—a loader and bull-dozer were also covered by the landslide alongside the deceased, an eyewitness told The ICIR.

“Two excavators are currently working to exhume the body,” Fredrick Ahmadu, Awoakpali Community Representative to Dangote coal company informed our correspondent.

Narrating the incident, Ahmadu said the landslide occurred at about 5pm Tuesday evening while the deceased was trapped by excavated soil as he struggled to escape from the coal deposit site.

“He was working as a dump man,”he said.

Describing late Etonu’s job as much of traffic warden, who controls the heavy-duty machines on where to dump excavated coals, the community representative said as of 1:30 pm on Wednesday his body was not found.

“Around 4:30 to 5pm, there is a machine called dumper coming towards his area. So, as he was controlling the vehicle on where to dump the sand, suddenly the ground opened where he was standing and he went in,” he recalled.

“He struggled to escape but the other heap of sand came down and covered him.”

According to Ahmadu, while the personnel of the Dangote mining company searched to remove the remains of the deceased in the mud, neither the police nor the Mines Inspectorate Department in the state were informed of the accident.

This is contrary to the provision of Part VIII, Section 84 (1) (a), (b) the Nigerian Minerals Mining Act (2007), which states that all operations should stop while the incident is reported to the police.

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In other words he was buried alive. EVIL IS NOT OUR PORTION. For the rest of the year and forever in Jesus name.

Dats to say we dnt take little things into consideration in Nigeria,for dey ground to cave in it means der have been signs for long time and due to pressure overtime it couldn't hold on and it's elasticity worn out R I.P