NSCDC arrest 671 illegal miners, allege sabotage of Nigerian economy

The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, has said that its Mining Marshals person arrested nary less than 671 suspected amerciable miners, with 397 already charged earlier the Federal High Court.
The corps besides revealed that convictions person been secured arsenic portion of the national government’s intensified crackdown connected amerciable mining.

The Commander of the Mining Marshals, ACC Attah John Onoja, made the disclosure connected Monday portion representing the Commandant-General of the NSCDC, Prof. Ahmed Abubakar Audi, astatine an lawsuit successful Abuja.

According to him, the Mining Marshals, established by the national authorities successful 2024, person disrupted galore amerciable mining sites crossed the country, unopen down amerciable operations, seized mining instrumentality and restored respective mining locations to their morganatic licence holders.

He attributed the arrests to the professionalism of the Mining Marshals, robust inter-agency collaboration and sustained enactment from the Federal Government.

Onoja revealed that the renewed enforcement efforts person importantly improved compliance with mining regulations and contributed to accrued authorities gross from the coagulated minerals sector.

He further called for dedicated budgetary support, deployment of surveillance technology, constitution of a nationalist mining quality concern country a...