Illegal mining in Nigeria linked to terrorism, insecurity – UN speaks after meeting NSCDC

The United Nations Office connected Drugs and Crime, UNODC has linked amerciable mining successful Nigeria to organised crime, coercion and insecurity crossed West Africa.

This was disclosed successful a connection on Monday after the Chief of the Africa Section of the Terrorism Prevention Branch, TPB astatine UNODC, Tullio Santini, led a delegation to conscionable with the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, NSCDC Mining Marshals.

According to Santini, the NSCDC Mining Marshals’ enforcement portion is captious to combating amerciable mining successful the country.

The large treatment centred connected the UNODC Crime-Terrorism Nexus Initiative, led by Mr Robert Haslinger, a instrumentality enforcement adept from the Swedish Police.

UNODC said the strategical model is designed to heighten practice among governments and instrumentality enforcement agencies successful dismantling the fiscal and operational links betwixt organised transgression networks and violent groups.

Commenting connected behalf of the Commandant General of the NSCDC, Ahmed Abubakar Audi, Commander John Onoja Attah, said the UNODC was captious to the combat against amerciable mining successful Nigeria.

He noted that erstwhile UNODC-supported grooming programmes had importantly improved collaboration betwixt the Mining Marshals and the Nigerian Financial ...