Troops arrest 98 illegal miners in FCT, recover equipment

Troops of 176 Guards Battalion nether Operation MESA person arrested 98 suspected amerciable miners during a raid connected an amerciable mining tract successful Gwagwalada Area Council of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT.

This was made known successful a station connected X by Zagazola Makama, a counter-insurgency and information adept successful the Lake Chad region.

Makama stated that the cognition was conducted astatine astir 5:55 p.m. connected March 23, pursuing quality connected amerciable mining activities successful the area, noting the troops stormed the tract and apprehended the suspects without resistance.

The root further revealed that items recovered during the cognition see 1 vehicle, 8 motorcycles, 5 pumping machines, 27 shovels, 7 sledgehammers, 22 diggers, 3 caput pans, 5 mining mats, and a sack of charcoal.

“The arrested suspects person been handed implicit to the Guards Brigade Provost Group for further probe and indispensable action,” helium said.

Troops apprehension 98 amerciable miners successful FCT, retrieve equipment