NSCDC Arrests Two At Illegal Mine Site In Kwara

Date: 2016-06-15

The Kwara State Command of the Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) on Tuesday arrested two people suspected to be involved in illegal mining of granite at a site in the state.

The State Commandant of the Corps, Awili Pedro, who led the operation, condemned the illegal activities which he said had been affecting Nigeria's economy.

Illegal mining has been on the increase in Kwara State of late, a development that the NSCDC said it would have to bring under control.

Their first port of call and inspection was the Basin area in Ilorin where the Corps swooped on the people extracting sands from a river.

At the sight of the security operatives, the illegal miners ran into a nearby bush but left behind their working tools which were carried away by the Civil Defence Corps.

Economic Sabotage

From Ilorin, the capital of Kwara State, the team moved to Oyun Local Government Area and Aperun village in particular, where the convoy drove for nearly one hour in the forest before getting to the illegal granite site.

Again the workers on sighting the NSCDC operatives flee but they were pursued to a nearby bush where two of them were apprehended. The nearby surrounding showed the cooking utensils being used by the illegal miners and the food sellers who were unobvious of the happenings, as the two men arrested were brought out from the bush.

Briefing reporters on the illegal activities of the miners, the NSCDC Commandant described the event as economic sabotage. He wondered how people could use dynamite to illegally blow the granite without paying to relevant authorities.

Mr Pedro said the two persons arrested would be investigated and charged if found culpable. One of the two suspects, who spoke in Hausa, said they were hired by one woman (Alhaja) from a nearby village and being paid 5,000 Naira daily.

Source

 

Cloud Tag: What's trending

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

Ilesha-Gwanara     Gafaru Olayiwola Olorisade     ASMAU PLAZA     Akeem Olatunji     Oyedepo     Communication Network Support Services     2023 Elections     NaAllah     Owu Fall     Muhammed Abdullahi     Tsado Manman     Baboko     Sardauna Of Ilorin     Aso Ofi     COEASU     Aisha Ahman-Pategi     Alaro     Government Girls’ Day Secondary School Pakata     Ijagbo     Benin Republic     Elerin Of Erin-Ile     Issa Memunat Moyosore     Olupako     New Naira Notes     Gbugbu     Yahaya Abdulkareem Babaita     Abdulkadir Remi Hawawu     Hydro-electric Power Producing Areas Development Commission     Harrison Osauwagboe     Turaki Of Ilorin     Idris Amosa Oladipo Saidu     Elelu     Jimba Babatunde     Muslim Stakeholders Of Kwara State     Gobir     Kwara North     Yakub Ali-Agan     Hijab     Raheem Adaramaja     Cornelius Fawenu     Aminu Adisa Logun     Old Oyo     Okin Biscuit     Sun Qing Rong     Ahmed Saidu Rufai     Hassan Oyeleke     Shuaibu Yaman Abdullahi     Offa     General Tunde Idiagbon International Airport     NIRSAL     NIPR     Eghe Igbinehi     Busari Alabi Alausa     Lanre Olosunde     Oyelere Oyinloye     Babatunde Ajeigbe     Baba Issa Awoye     Saidu Kawu     International Vocational Centre     Abubakar Suleiman     Gabriel Fashanu     KWASIEC     Olam Food Ingredients     Oloruntoyosi Thomas     Olanrewju Okanlawon Musa     Pakata     Oluwarotimi Boluwatife Adenike     Kazeem Oladepo     Bashir Adigun     Isiaq Khadeejah     Toyin Saraki     Shettima Of Ilorin     Abdullahi Atanda     Roheemat Hammed     Elerin Of Adanla Irese     Buhari     Issa Oloruntogun    

Cloud Tag: What's trending

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

BIR     Salihu S. Yaru     Deji Ajani     Mahmud Ajeigbe     ASMAU PLAZA     Kwara State Printing And Publishing Corporation     Ibraheem Abdullateef     Yekeen Alabi     Bashir Omolaja Bolarinwa     Toyosi Thomas     Baruba     Shuaibu Yaman Abdullahi     Lawal Arinola Kudirat     IF-K     Olabanji Orilonishe     Monkey Pox     Makama Of Ilorin     Col. Ibrahim Taiwo     Alfa Modibo Belgore     Adedayo Yusuf Abdulkareem     Cassava Growers\' Association     JUSUN     Okoolowo     Abubakar Bature Sulu-Gambari     Abdulrahman Abdulrasaq     Shuaib Olarongbe     Folorunsho Alao     Gbajabiamila     Bilikisu Oniyangi     Abdulrahman Onikijipa     Yahaya Dumoye     Chief Imam Of Omu-Aran     Chief Imam Of Lafiagi     Government High School (GHS), Adeta     Aliyu Adebayo     April 11     Pilgrims Board     Unicontinental Construction Company     Abdulmumin Yinka Ajia     Kolade Solagberu     Muyideen Ajani Bello     Saeedat Aliyu     Nigerian Correctional Service     Oke-opin     Ezekiel Yissa Benjamin     AbdulKareem Yusuf Danhawa     Ganmo     Ilorin Anchor Men And Women     Olayinka Oladapo Jogunola     JAMB     AbdulRauf Keji     NIPOGA     Ishak Mohammed Sabi     Bamidele Adegoke     Sardauna Of Ilorin     Kwara State Government     John Olobayo     Bolakale Saka     Sarah Alade     Ahmed Dankaya     Kwarareports     Olumide Daniel Ibitoye     AbdulGaniyu Kareem     Yekini Adio     Aso Ofi     Kulende     Olawuyi     Bankole Omishore     Bola Magaji     Towobola Abdulrahman Toyin     Umar Ayinla Saro     Kwara State Television     Ahmed Saidu Rufai     Mohammed Ghali Alaaya     Ike Ekweremadu     Olaoye B. Felix     Olatunji Bamgbola