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.

KWASEIC     Taofik Abiodun Ahmed     Mustapha Olanipekun     Inside Kwara     Maigida Soludero Transit     Special Agro-Industrial Hub     Pakata Patriots     Tayo Alao     Galadima     Adamu Atta     Adanla-Irese     Kwara University Of Education     Muhammad Fawaz Abubakar     Olosi Of Osi     Ita-Ore     Olusegun Adeniyi     AbdulRazaq Abubakar Jiddah     Tinubu Legacy Forum     Offorjama     Democracy Day     Ilorin     Maigidasanma     KWATMA     Femi Agbaje     Eghe Igbinehi     Oke-Ero     Laolu Saraki     Atiku Abubakar     College Of Arabic And Islamic Legal Studies     Oko Erin     Ophthalmological Society Of Nigeria     Bilikisu Oniyangi     Joseph Bamigboye     Communication Network Support Services     Idris Amosa Oladipo Saidu     Ado Bayero     Ogbondoroko     Funmilayo Mohammed     Wahab Abayawo     Abegunde Goke     Oniyangi     Abdulbaqi Jimoh     Ekweremadu     KW-GIS     Eghe Igbinehin     Amos Bajeh     Sardauna     Bamidele Adegoke     Yomi Ogunsola     Dele Belgore     Sulaiman Gado     Isiaka Oniwa     Danladi     Nurudeen Mohammed     Oke-Odo     Ajibola Saliu Ajia     Kehinde Baale     Muslim Media Watch Group Of Nigeria     Ileloke     Kubra Kazum     UNILORIN Alumni Association     Tsaragi-Share     John Mayokun Dada     Paul Olawoore     Adeola Abraham     Saliu Mustapha     Aminu Ado Bayero     SSA Youth Engagement     Lawan     Congress For National Consensus     Hassan Taiye Salam     Odo-Owa     Saka Aleshinloye     Oba-Solagberu     Idi-Ape     Aishat Mohammed Lawal     General Hospital, Ilorin    

Cloud Tag: What's trending

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

Ola Falade     Abdullahi Atanda     Kwara Metro Park     Elections     Abikan     Lai Gobir     Olabode Towoju     Quarry Royal Valley     Lanre Badmas     Centre For Community Empowerment And Poverty Eradication     Lanre Olosunde     Abdul-Rasheed Na\'Allah     Toyin Falola     Firdaos Amasa     Gbemi Saraki     Tsaragi/Share     Fola Consultant     Christopher Odetunde     Nigeria Customs Service     Issa Oloruntogun     Idofin     Basic Education Certificate Examination     Okin High School     Emir Of Kano     Folorunsho Alao     Abubakar Ndakene     Ishaq Oloyede     Charles Ibitoye     Ibrahim Issa Jetti     Kwara Poly     KW-GIS     Oba Sulaiman Asude     Amusa Bello     Mike Omotosho     Hydroelectric Power Producing Areas Development Commission     Olatomiwa Williams     Tsado Manman     Mogaji Aare     Ibrahim Sulu Gambari     Ibrahim Abdulqadir Abikan     Toyin Saraki     Jeunkunu-Malete-Bani     Razaq Atunwa     Ayoade Akinnibosun     Tunde Akanbi     Abdulquawiy Olododo     Offa Poly     Ayodele Olaosebikan     Christopher Tunji Ayeni     Gani Saadu     CKNG     Eleja     Igbaja     Oloye     Sa\'ad Alanamu     Magaji Nda     Oye Tinuoye     Sheikh Alimi     Mohammed Tunde-Jimoh     Balogin Alanamu     Curfew     Tinubu     Aliyu Kora-Sabi     Agbarigidoma     Age AbdulKareem     SDP     Abdullateef Abdussalam     Alabi Lawal     Tunde Kazeem     ARMTI     Lotus Bank     Abdulmumin Yinka Ajia     Omotoso     Patigi Regatta     Elerinjare     Oja-Oba     Ilorin