Niger mining crisis: NSCDC warns of fresh danger, urges Assembly to ban illegal mining

The recently posted Commandant of the Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps, NSCDC, successful Niger State, Abdulhamid Salisu Kabara, has warned that amerciable mining activities stay a superior information menace contempt the caller incidental that claimed the lives of 34 miners successful the state.

Kabara raised the alarm connected Tuesday during a familiarisation sojourn to the Speaker of the Niger State House of Assembly, Abdulmalik Sarkindaji, successful his bureau successful Minna.

He said amerciable miners had regrouped and resumed operations successful ample numbers, allegedly utilizing unit to thrust residents retired of their homes to summation entree to mining sites.

According to him, the activities person continued to endanger the information of residents successful parts of Minna, with galore abandoning their homes for fearfulness of being attacked.

"The concern present is that they consciousness they are supra the law. There is simply a request for an urgent measurement towards addressing the existent situation," helium said.

The commandant called connected the authorities legislature to enact a instrumentality to prohibit amerciable mining activities, informing that nonaccomplishment to code the concern could pb to different large information crisis.

He described his presumption of bureau arsenic challenging, peculiarly successful presumption of the contention surrounding the deaths of the 34 miners successful NSCDC custody.

Kabara, however, assured residents that his medication would enforce subject and professionalism successful the corps, stressing that unit indispensable adhere strictly to operational procedures and rul...