Bago urges clerics to preach against teenage mining

Niger State Governor, Mohammed Umaru Bago, has urged spiritual leaders successful the authorities to usage their sermons to discourage parents from allowing teenagers to prosecute successful artisanal mining.

Bago made the telephone connected Tuesday erstwhile the enactment of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), Niger State Chapter, led a condolence sojourn to him astatine the Government House, Minna, pursuing the decease of 37 young artisanal miners successful the custody of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC).

The politician said the authorities authorities had made basal and secondary acquisition free, urging parents to instrumentality vantage of the argumentation by enrolling their children successful schoolhouse alternatively than exposing them to the dangers associated with artisanal mining.

He said, “We are bedevilled with the situation that happened successful the custody of the NSCDC. Please, telephone connected parents not to exposure their children to this unsafe benignant of business.

“Please, usage the religion and mosques to telephone connected parents to discourage their children from indulging successful artisanal mining and to promote them to enrol successful schools truthful that they tin beryllium amended citizens tomorrow.

“We each person a work to guarantee enrolment into schoolhouse is encouraged due to the fact that some basal and secondary acquisition successful Niger State are ...