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.

Kwara Coalition Of Business And Professional Associations     Ibrahim Akaje     Sheikh Alimi     Abdulmutalib Shittu     Age AbdulKareem     Haleeman Salman     Tsaragi     Afolayan     Moses Rahman Popoola     Sulu Babaita Isiaka     Women Radio     Idris Amosa Oladipo Saidu     Kisira     Oluwatoyin Lukman     AbdulHakeem Ajibola Akanbi     Al-Hikmah Radio     Labaeka     IsDB     Mufutau Olatinwo     Ghali Muhammed     Tunji Olawuyi     Omu Aran     John Dara     Chief Imam Of Omu-Aran     Grillo     Mashood Abdulrafiu Agboola     Just Event Online     Ella Supreme Tissue Paper     Aliyu Salihu     John Olajide Adedipe     Abdulwasiu Bolaji Adeyi     Taofik Abdulkareem     Bayo Ajia     Clara Nwachukwu     Orisun Igbomina     Neo Mundo Ltd     Yakubu Dogara     Olatunji Bamgbola     Aliyu Olatunji Ajanaku     Alimi Abdulrazaq     Mansurat Amuda-Kannike     Yinka Aluko     Umar Sanda Yusuf     Elerin Of Erin-Ile     College Of Education     Abubakar Abdullahi Bata     Aisha Gobir     Savannah Centre For Diplomacy, Democracy And Development     Mahmud Ajeigbe     Kwara-SAPZ Project     Special Adviser On Digital Innovation     Habeeb Abdullahi Al-Ilory     Ahmed \'Lateef     Nigerian Supreme Council For Islamic Affairs     Women For Change And Development Initiative     Malete     PPS     Bisi Oyeleke     Bashir Adigun     Abdulmumin Yinka Ajia     Taibat Ayinke Ahmed     Overland     Amuda Bembe     Jaiz Bank     Olushola Saraki     Elerin Of Adanla     Kayode Oyin Zubair     Afusat Nike Ibrahim     Yakubu Gobir     Rihanat Ajia     Olayinka Oladapo Jogunola     Labour Party     Abdulrasheed Akogun     Adebara     Modibbo Kawu     Osinbajo     Marafan Shonga    

Cloud Tag: What's trending

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

Mary Kemi Adeosun     Ubandoma     Aso-ofi     Undergraduate Bursary     David Adesina     National Association Of Nigerian Students     Hijaab     Bello Oyedepo     Bello Oyebanji     Gafaru Olayiwola Olorisade     Bello Bature     Usman Alkali Baba     Abdulahi Abubakar Bata     Lukman Oyebanji Fagbemi     Binta Abubakar-Mora     Presidential Election     Adebayo Salami     Olufolake Abdulrazaq     Olaiya Lawal     National Information Technology Development Agency     Temitope Ogunbanke     Valsolar Consultoria     Sola Saraki University     Shao     Tayo Awodiji     Aliyu Muhammed     Aliyu Umar     Paul Odama     HAMFAT Clinic And Maternity     Hassan A. Saliu     Tayo Alao     Oyedun Juliana Funke     Yusuf Abdulraheem     Habeeb Abdullahi Al-Ilory     Yahya Mohammed     Apata Ajele Secondary School     Ilorin Emirate     Erin-ile     High Court     Rueben Parejo     Ahmed Ayinla Jimoh     Sadiq Buhari     Matthew Okedare     April 11     Kazeem Gbolagade     Coronavirus     Ilorin West     Tsaragi/Share     Folorunsho Alao     Kwara Apc     John Mayokun Dada     LAK Jimoh     Odogun Olushola Gabriel     Taofeeq Olateju     Ibrahim Oloriegbe     Valsolar Consortium     Asa LGEA School     Ahman Patigi     Yakub Ali-Agan     Oba Abdulraheem     Patience Jonathan     Theophilus Oyebiyi     Muhammad Yahya     Special Adviser On Digital Innovation     Mohammed Yahaya Barki     Alaaya     Muslim Stakeholders Of Kwara State     NNPP     Federal Allocation     Ibrahim Sulu Gambari     Ganmo     Abdulrazaq Adebayo     Shururat Olatinwo     Kayode Oyin Zubair     Abegunde Goke     Gbemisola Saraki     Omoniyi Ayinla