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.

Galland Marcias     Olokoba     Bureau Of Lands     Idris Amosa Oladipo Saidu     Umar Saro     Sebastine Obasi     Ebun-Olu Adegboruwa     ER-KANG Mining     Abdullahi Biffo     Lotus Bank     Abdulmumin Yinka Ajia     Ubandoma Of Ilorin     Olomu Of Omu-Aran     Alagbado     Yahaya Dumoye     Balikis Jawondo     Bolaji Nagode     SDP     Kayode Yusuf     Matthew Okedare     Orisun Igbomina     Dairo Kunle Paul     Haruna Olawale Sulaiman     Olufolake Abdulrazaq     School Of Nursing     Code Of Conduct Bureau     Christopher Odetunde     Abdulkadir Jimoh     Yemi Osinbajo     2023 Elections     Yakubu Gobir     Asa LGEA School     Jimoh Bashir     Alabi Lawal     Olawuyi     Ita-Ore     Ibrahim Agboola Gambari     Ajidagba     Kwara State Sports Commission     Lateef Fagbemi     Manzuma     Coronavirus     Iyaloja-General     Abdulsalam A. Yusuf     Ayinde Oyepitan     Ebola     Ayodele Kuburat Olaosebikan     Ibrahim Abiodun     Ahmed Alhasssan     Durbar     Abdulrazaq Solihudeen     Musbau A. Akanji     Bolaji Aladie     Kwara Pdp     Amasa     Sheikh Ariyibi     Gurei     Kehinde Baale     Samuel Elizabeth Keatswa     Taofik Abdulkareem     Mohammed Katsina Ahmed     Abdulrahman Abdulrazak     Oro Grammar School     SSUCOEN     Yahaya Jibril Usman     Razak Atunwa     AbdulHamid Adi     Kwara Muslim Pilgrims Welfare Board     Elelu     Saba Jibril     Ibrahim Abdullahi     Ubandoma     General Hospital, Offa     Mohammed Ibrahim     Yaman     Senior Ibrahim Suleiman     Hassan Taiye Salam    

Cloud Tag: What's trending

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

Olatunji Bamgbola     Alapado     John Dara     Idowu Laro     Muritala Awodun     IPSAS     Yoruba     ER-KANG Mining     Omoniyi Ayinla     Lawan     Galadiman Ngeri     Isau     Baakini     Olugbense     MATTA Girls Foundation     Yusuf Abubakar     Pakata     Ejidongari     Oloriegbe     Jani Ibrahim     Turaki Of Ilorin     Ahmed Alhasssan     GAMA     Osinbajo     Bilikis Oladimeji     Kayode Zubair     Oba-Solagberu     Isiaka AbdulRazaq     Abdulrazaq Solihudeen     Imodoye Writer’s Enclave     Idris Amosa Oladipo Saidu     Adeola Abraham     Amusement Park     IYA ALFA NLA     Oniwa     Babatunde Ishola Babaita     Shuaibu Yaman Abdullahi     Aliyu U. Tilde     Ibrahim Kayode Adeyemi     KwaraLearn     Apata Ajele Secondary School     Oloje     Issa Memunat Moyosore     Oyawoye     Ilorin Metro Park     Forgo Battery Company Limited     Jumoke Gafar     Radio Kwara     Sidikat Akaje     Hijaab     Aisha Abodunrin Ibrahim     Kwara State Coalition Of Business And Professional Associations     Abdulganiyu Salahudeen     Sherif Sagaya     Tunji Oyawoye     Bolaji Abdullahi     Shettima Of Ilorin     Sa\'adu Salau     Maryam Ado Bayero     Haashim Initiative For Community Advancement     Ilofa     Ayo Adeyemi     Amasa     Oyun     Ganmo Electricity Sub-Station     Code Of Conduct Bureau     Olatinwo     Saliu Ajia     Shola Odetundun     Ayobami Seriki     Mamman Saba Jibril     Ilorin     CCT     AbdulRazaq Abubakar Jiddah     ANCOPPS     Women For Change And Development Initiative     Tafida Of Ilorin