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.

Toyosi Thomas     Abiodun Oyedepo     Omoniyi M. Ayinla     Olabimpe Olani     Ishaq Salman     George Funsho Adebayo     Wahab Issa     James Kolo     Ilorin West/Asa Federal Constituency     Olayinka Oladapo Jogunola     Adam Abdullahi Al-Ilory     James Ayeni     Oluronke Adeyemi     Goodluck Jonathan     Afin Descendants Union Of Odo-Owa     Seed Technologies     CCB     Ibikunle Ogunleye     Balogun Fulani     Oloriegbe     NFAI     Idiagbon     Sidikat Uthman Ajibola     Afonja Descendants Union     Rebecca Bake     Afolayan     Kwara State Pension Board     Olusegun Adeniyi     Nnazua     Oloje     Tunji Ajanaku     EndSARS     John Kehinde Salako     Ghali Alaaya     CCT     Muazam Nayaya     Shehu Alimi Foundation For Peace And Development     NSCIA     Elewu     Nigeria Governors\' Forum     Bolakale Saka     KWAFFA     Folashade Omoniyi     Ado Bayero     Lola Ashiru     Valsolar-Kwara Company Limited     Lateef Ademola Olatunji     Baaziki Sulaiman     Salami Adekunle     Kawu     Sarkin Malamai     Kwara North     Saadu Alanamu     Tunde Mukaila Mustapha     Samuel Adedoyin     Zaratu Umar     Ibrahim Abdullahi     Ayinke Saka     Baboko Primary School     Ibrahim Kayode Adeyemi     Emmanuel Olatunji Adesoye     CACOVID Palliatives     Gbenga Olawepo     Freshvine Nigeria Limited     Ahmad Fatima Bisola     Adeleke Ogungbe     Abdul-Rasheed Na\'Allah     Kola Adesina     Yusuf Abdulraheem     Theophilus Oyebiyi     Kale Bayero     Olokoba Abdullahi Ayinla     Rafiu Olasile     Laolu Saraki     Jide Oyinloye     Busari Toyin Isiaka     Bashirat Bola Bello    

Cloud Tag: What's trending

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

Ilorin Likeminds Foundation     Abdulmumini Sanni Jawondo     Forgo Battery Company Limited     Mutawali     Simeon Sayomi     Sadiq Umar     Garba Ado Sanni     Michael Nzwekwe     Sango-UITH Road     Mufutau Gbadamosi Esuwoye     Abdullahi AbdulMajeed     Akume     Bank Of Industry     IF-K     Clara Nwachukwu     Oke-Oyi     Olaiya Lawal     Suleiman Rotimi Iliasu     Twitter     Saliu Shola Taofeek     Olatinwo     NNPP     Lola Olabayo     Col. Ibrahim Taiwo     Ilorin Innovation Hub     Rotimi Samuel Olujide     Centre For Peace And Strategic Studies     Segun Olawoyin     Kawu Baraje     Timothy Olatunde Fadipe     Ilorin Durbar     Aliyu Kora-Sabi     Kwara Restoration Project     Playing Host     Muhammad Akande Olarewaju Odunade     Kwara State Geographic Information Service     Abraysports FC     Muhammad Ghali Alaaya     Isaac Aderemi Kolawole     Isiaka Saka Opobiyi     Olukotun Of Ikotun     Ilorin Airport     Maryam Ado Bayero     Folajimi Aleshinloye     Okin Biscuit     Y.A. Abdulkareem     Ahmad Ali     Maryam A. Garuba     Kunle Suleiman     ASUU     Obuh     Ilorin General Hospital     Afolabi-Oshatimehin     Omoniyi M. Ayinla     Apata Ajele Secondary School     Ayo Opadokun     Kwara Liberation Group     Shonga Farm Project     Olatunji Abdulmumeen     Eleja     Baboko     Kwara State Football Association     Olota Of Odo-Owa     Shoprite     Afolayan     John Mayokun Dada     Shero     Akeem Lawal     General Hospital     Aliyu Umar     Moses Rahman Popoola     Clement Yomi Adeboye     Moses Afolayan     Abdulmajeed Abdullahi     Ayo Adeyemi     Niyi Osundare     Salami Adekunle