Seven suspected illegal miners in Minna crackdown in Niger

Seven suspected amerciable miners were arrested successful Minna, Niger State, during a crackdown led by the Commissioner for Mineral Resources, Mohammed Qasim Danjuma.

The enforcement operation, carried retired astir 6:30 p.m. down the Bilkebeb Shango country of Minna, targeted amerciable mining activities reportedly taking spot wrong a residential assemblage connected Tuesday evening.

Nine motorcycles allegedly utilized for the amerciable operations were besides confiscated during the raid.

The suspects and the seized motorcycles were aboriginal handed implicit to the Niger State Command of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, NSCDC, for further probe and indispensable action.

The commissioner, accompanied by the Ministry’s Director of Administration, AGM Zuma, alongside NSCDC officials, including the Operational Commander, described the amerciable mining activities wrong a residential country arsenic a superior menace to lives and the environment.

According to him, the cognition forms portion of Governor Mohammed Umar Bago’s New Niger Agenda aimed astatine sanitising the mining sector, curbing amerciable mining, and strengthening regularisation crossed the state.

He warned that anyone recovered engaging successful amerciable mining activities would look the afloat value of the law, stressing that the authorities remains committed to protecting...