Troops arrest suspected illegal mining kingpin, three others in FCT

Troops of the 176 Guards Battalion person arrested a suspected amerciable mining kingpin and 3 different suspects during a raid connected amerciable mining sites successful Gwagwalada Area Council of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT).

The cognition was disclosed successful a station shared connected X on Wednesday night by information analyst, Zagazola Makama.

According to the post, the raid was carried retired astatine astir 8:30 p.m. connected July 13 successful Dukpa Community, pursuing quality gathered aft the apprehension of a radical of amerciable miners successful the country connected July 7.

Makama said the troops stormed identified amerciable mining sites, wherever they arrested a suspected sponsor believed to beryllium the person of the operation, alongside 3 different suspects.

During preliminary interrogation, the main fishy allegedly admitted to sponsoring the amerciable mining activities and told investigators that helium recruited labourers from Katsina State to transportation retired the operations successful the FCT.

“Items recovered during the cognition included a motorcycle, 2 digging tools, 7 filter carpets, 7 pumping instrumentality nozz...