30 illegal miners killed in Kwara

Date: 2017-05-06

No fewer than 30 illegal miners may have lost their lives in recent times in Kaima Local Government area of Kwara State.

A member of the state House of Assembly, Hon. Muhammed Baaziki, representing Kaima State Constituency in the House disclosed this.

Baaziki, who spoke on the floor of the House on Tuesday, decried the activities of illegal miners scattered all over the state.

The lawmaker said, "The illegal miners use hazardous blast to blow open the mines and this usually have adverse effects on the health of workers on site, who normally do not wear protective gear.

There was a time the locals counted more than 30 corpses at the mine site."The Speaker, Rt. Hon. Ali Ahmad, frowned on a situation where the state was being shortchanged by the illegal miners.

Ahmad decried the impunity with which the miners operate by making it impossible to ascertain the volume of what they mine, resulting in the loss of the 13 percent derivation that should accrue to the state.

He, however, pledged the resolve of the house to ensure that the activities of the illegal miners were curtailed and the state got the appropriate revenue for all its natural resources mined. "It is saddening that Kwara has been adjudged the state with worst cases of illegal mining in the whole of Africa. This is an embarrassing statistics," he stressed.

Source

 

Cloud Tag: What's trending

Click on a word/phrase to read more about it.

Ijakadi     Ayoade Akinnibosun     Ajeigbe     Tunji Olawuyi     Cassava Growers\' Association     ANCOPPS     Ajidagba     NFAI     Kwara Basketball Association     Ademola Kiyesola     VADA     Hauwa Nuru     Savannah Centre For Diplomacy, Democracy And Development     Col. Adedipe     Orisun Igbomina     Obuh     Nigerian Correctional Service     Wole Oke     Alabe     Elections     Musbau A. Akanji     Abdulrauf Yusuf     Opaleke Bukola Iyabo     Pakata Patriots     Agbarigidoma     Funmilayo Zubair     KFA     Buhari     Unicontinental Construction Company     Bello Abubakar     ENetSuD     Kayode Issa     Elese Of Igbaja     Innocent Okoye     Bola Ahmed Tinubu     Mahmud Babatunde Baker     Yusuf Amuda Abubakar     Yaman     April 11     Yusuf Arowosaye     Joshua Adeyemi Adimula     Adebayo Mohammed Kamaldeen     Lanre Issa Onilu     Christopher Ayeni     National Party Of Nigeria     National Information Technology Development Agency     Ramadhan     Nagode     Shehu Adaramaja     Young Progressives Party     Mahmud Durosinlohun Atiku     Oko Erin     Makama Of Ilorin     Oke Sunna     Durosinlohun Kawu     Umar Ayinla Saro     Mashood Dauda     COEASU     Ella Supreme Tissue Paper     Saad Omo\'ya     Shehu Alimi Foundation For Peace And Development     Akume     Tunde Yusuf     John Kehinde Salako     Shuaib Jawondo     Oyelere Oyinloye     Mahmud Ayinla Giwa     Salman Alada     CLAY POT     Ahmed Shuaib Buranga     Omotosho     Alapado     Justina Oha     Stephen Fasakin     Aminat Omodara     Segun Adeniyi     Ojuekun Sarumi    

Cloud Tag: What's trending

Click on a word/phrase to read more about it.

Sarafadeen Kayode Akorede     Ilorin Durbar     Fatai Garuba Labaka     11th Galadima     Edu     Abdulwahab Ololele     Peculiar Allowance     NIPR     Roheemat Hammed     Mohammed Lawal Bagega     Gbemisola Oguntimehin     Kunbi Titiloye     Chartered Institute Of Personnel Management Of Nigeria     Eleja     Ilorin Curfew     Offa Grammer School     Kannike     Marafan Shonga     Kazeem Adekanye     Simeon Sule Ajibola     Salihu S. Yaru     Ben Duntoye     Ahmad Uthman     Tunji Moronfoye     CT Ayeni     Convocation Ceremonies     NTA Ilorin     Maja     Kwara Metro Park     Muazam Nayaya     Sola Saraki Educational Foundation     Adedeji Onimago     The Herald     Tsaragi-Share     Junior Secondary School Certificate Examinations     Ibrahim Gambari     Nigerian Medical Association     Senior Staff Union Of Colleges Of Education     Mumeen Lah     Esinniobiwa Quareeb     Kawu     Razak Atunwa     Saliu Oluwole     Ishaq Salman     Idofin     Geri-Alimi Split Diamond Interchange     Gobir     Wahab Issa     Towoju     Kayode Alabi     Kale Ayo     Ijakadi     Sabitiyu Grillo     Abdulrazaq Adebayo     Iyabo Adisa Ibiyeye     Yekeen Alabi     2017 Budget     Prince Sunday Fagbemi     Gobir Organization Foundation     Ibrahim Mohammed     Ubandawaki     Mansur Alfanla     Ajike People Support Centre     Joseph Bamigboye     Tayo Alao     MATTA Girls Foundation     Sambo Murtala     Kishira     Kpotum Mohammed Baba     TIC     Baruba     Oko-Olowo     Emir Of Lafiagi     Titus Suberu-Ajibola     Aisha Ahman-Pategi     CELF     Onikijipa