The Secretary to the Kaduna State Government, Mallam Balarabe Lawal, made the revelation while answering questions before the Judicial Commission of Inquiry.
He said the corpses were given a mass burial in a grave on December 14, 2015.
Lawal said 191 unknown bodies were recovered from the Army Depot in Zaria and another batch of 156 corpses were recovered from the Ahmadu Bello University Teaching Hospital, Shika.
Confirming Lawal’s testimony, the Director-General of Interfaith, Muhammad Namadi Musa, said the bodies were buried between 12 midnight and 5 am and he personally supervised the burial.
Musa said, “On December 13, 2015, I received a phone call from the SSG to come to the Government House after which I was directed to go to Zaria to find out the number of corpses and how they would be buried.
“I moved in company of the state Commissioner of Police straight to ABUTH, Zaria to ascertain the number of corpses. There we counted 156 corpses.
“At the Nigerian Depot, the SSG directed me to meet with one Maj. Ogundare regarding the corpses there. After introducing myself, he refused to let me know the number; but later on, the SSG called me and told me the number.
“He also confirmed the number while they were being buried; as he counted them one after the other as they were laid in one grave.
“We left the Nigerian Army Depot with three heavy-duty trucks and 60 young officers who escorted us to assist in offloading the corpses. From ABUTH, Zaria, five small trucks carried the 196 corpses. Most corpses were covered with black materials and they included women and children.”
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