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.

Saadu Gbogbo Iwe     Kawu Baraje     Saka Adeyemo     Mubarak Oladosu     Ilofa     Raliat Elelu-Habeeb     Mohammed Lawal Bagega     Sheikh Ridhwanullah     Ayobami Akanbi     Michael Nzekwe     Funmilayo Braithwaite     Charles Ibitoye     Zaratu Umar     Abdulmumini AbdulRazaq     Kaiama     Special Agro-Industrial Hub     Shehu Adaramaja     Abdulrazaq Adebayo     Kayode Bankole     Veterinary Teaching Hospital     Hauwa Nuru     Tunde Oyawoye     Yetunde Balogun     Onilorin Of Ilorin     Suraj Tunji Oyewale     Suleiman Idris     Titus Suberu-Ajibola     Babajide Ajayi     Bisi Kristien     YAKOOYO     Mufutau Gbadamosi Esuwoye     Face Masks     Usman Yunusa     Adebayo Mohammed Kamaldeen     Abdulrasheed Lafia     Samuel Olusegun Adedayo     Amusement Park     TETFUND     Toyin Olayinka Tejidini     Olatunji Bamgbola     SSA Youth Engagement     United Nigeria Congress Party     Sabo-Oke     Moremi High School     Aishatu Ahmed Gobir     Marafan Shonga     Madawaki     Bilikisu Gambari     Frootify     Opobiyi     Kwara Basketball Association     Offa Descendants Union     Baba Isale     Communication Network Support Services     Inside Kwara     Oyedepo     Orire     Dan Masanin     Abdulrazaq Sanni     Abdulkarim Adisa     Folashade Omoniyi     Moses Salami     Bayo Lawal     Grillo     Amada Jidda     Women Radio     Kwarareports     Olam Food Ingredients     Sa\'adu Salau     Tunde Mukaila Mustapha     Tunji Moronfoye     Amina El-Imam     Ubandoma     Oloye     Balogun-Ojomu     Tunji Olawuyi     Harafat E. Mukadam    

Cloud Tag: What's trending

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

Maja     Elerinjare-Ibobo     Aisha Gobir     Abubakar Olusola Saraki     Valsolar-Kwara Company Limited     Abdulrahman Abdullahi Kayode     Olomu Of Omu-Aran     Saba Mamman Daniel     Alaiye     Millennium Development Goals     Yoonus Kola Olatinwo     Abubakar Abdullahi Bata     Allocation     Abdulkadir Bolakale Sakariyah     Afeyin-Olukuta     JMK Construction Company Limited     Mansur Alfanla     Babaita     Muslimah Entrepreneurship Forum     Muhammadu Buhari     Tunji Moronfoye     Raymond Olaitan     Owo Arugbo     Saka Keji     Paul Olawoore     Mohammed Ghali Alaaya     Agboola Babatunde     Al-Ilory     Ibrahim Abduquadri Abikan     Pilgrims Board     KWASEIC     Aminat Omodara     Nigerian Medical Association     Old Oyo     Okoolowo     CT Ayeni     Mohammed Abduraheem     NSCIA     Ganiyu Taofiq     Amule     Veterinary Teaching Hospital     Fawenu     AGF Abdulrazaq     Laolu Saraki     ITEM 7     Ilorin Emirate     Halimat Yusuf     Ilorin International Airport     Admiralty Villa     Toun Okewale-Sonaiya     International Aviation College     Mohammed Ajia Ibrahim     11th Galadima     ASMAU PLAZA     Omotoso Musa     Just Event Online     Ojo Fadumila     YAKOOYO     Trader Moni     AbdulGafar Tosho     Fola Consultant     Bank Of Industry     Ladi Hassan     Isiaka Yusuf     Ajuloopin     Elelu     Segun Abifarin     Facebook     Olusola Saraki     Principal Private Secretary     Ayo Salami     Kwasu     Tayo Alao     Edret Sabi Abel     Shehu Jimoh     Henry Makinwa     Bursary