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.

Ojuekun     Age AbdulKareem     Danladi     Student Learning Support Helpline     NNPP     Aremu Bose Deborah     Musibau Akanji     UITH     Kunbi Titiloye     Dumagi     Shero     Atiku     Ezekiel Yissa Benjamin     Offa Descendants Union     Mope Dasuki Belgore     Gamji Members Association     Falokun-Oja     Funke Adedoyin     Okin Malt     Olusin Of Ijara Isin     Mohammed Lawal Bagega     Sam Onile     State Bureau Of Internal Revenue     Aso-ofi     Pakata Patriots     Mansurat Amuda-Kannike     Abdulmajeed Abdullahi     Ilorin South Constituency     Sulyman Abdulkareem     Jebba     Yusuf Ali     Clement Yomi Adeboye     AbdulKareem Yusuf Danhawa     March 18     Ahmed Shuaib Buranga     Odo-Owa     Offa Grammer School     Ayoade Akinnibosun     Mutawali     JMK Construction Company Limited     Eleja Taiwo Banu     Muhammad Ghali Alaaya     Babata     Playing Host     Alanamu     Gbadeyan Gbadura Yomi     Fareedah Dankaka     Folorunsho Alao     Simon Sayomi     Diagnostic Centre     Abubakar B.M     Ahman Pategi     Kwara Poly     Omotoso Musa     Abdulrahman Abdulrazaq     SDP     David Oyedepo     Akume     Muhammad Sirajo Aliyu     Ajasse-Ipo     IEDPU     Azeez Salawu     Femi Gbajabiamila     Rafiu Olasile     Michael Nzekwe     Tunde Kazeem     Bola Ahmed Tinubu     Salihu S. Yaru     Kayode Ishola     Saad Omo\'ya     Saka Balikis Kehinde     Sango-UITH Road     Abdulkadir Orire     Isiaka Oniwa     Paul Odama     Susan Modupe Oluwole     NAWOJ    

Cloud Tag: What's trending

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

Micheal Imodu-Ganmo Road     Yekeen Alabi     Ballah     Babatunde Idiagbon     Edu     Atunwa     Mohammed Ibrahim     Oro Grammar School     Yusuf Mubarak     Adekunle David Dunmade     Olaiya Lawal     Bashir Badawi     Jumoke Gafar     Hikmah AbdulKareem     National Union Of Road Transport Workers     Obayomi Azeez     Lotus Bank     Kwara Consultative Forum     April 11     Sarah Jubril     Zainab Abass     IEDPU     Abdulfatai Salman Baakini     Ibrahim Gambari     Bamidele Aluko     Isiaka Yusuf     Iponrin     Yomi Adeboye     Alikinla     Tafida     Omu-aran     Balogun Gambari     Oba Sulaiman Asude     Hijaab     Arca Santa     Umar Saro     IQRA College     NITDA     Bello Taoheed Abubakar     Mohammed Ghali Alaaya     Babajide Ajayi     Aminat Omodara     Olokoba     George Innih     Lanre Aremu     Folaranmi Aro     Okin Group     Haruna Olawale Sulaiman     Fatai Adeniyi Garba     Bolaji Nagode     Unilorin     Kola Olota     Amada Jidda     Femi Agbaje     Undergraduate Bursary     Bayo Mohammed Onimode     Kulende-UITH     Toyin Sanusi     Esuwoye     Jimoh Akani     Abiodun Abdulkareem     Hamidat Sulyman-Yusuf     Curfew     IsDB     Face Masks     SARS     Wahab Issa     Adolescent Girls Initiative For Learning And Empowerment     Labaeka     Wahab Agbaje     Code Of Conduct Tribunal     Wale Oladepo     Muyiwa Oladipo Kanu     Ajasse-Ipo     Alanamu     Ifelodun     COEASU