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.

Monkey Pox     ARMTI     Onilorin Of Ilorin     Ola Falade     Arik     Centre For Digital Economy     Salihu Jibril Garbi     Kwara State Pension Board     John Mayokun Dada     Ajidagba     Ilorin Muslim Community     Jide Oyinloye     Summit University     Ike Ekweremadu     Saadu Gbogbo Iwe     Roheemat Hammed     Saliu Oluwole     Ibraheem Abdullateef     Sanusi Abubakar     Kanu Agabi     Standard Organization Of Nigeria     Alabe     Kwara-SAPZ Project     Oro Grammar School Old Students Association     Toyin Falola     AbdulHakeem Ajibola Akanbi     Joseph Daudu     Joseph Yemi Ajayi     Ajibola Saliu Ajia     Ogbondoroko     Kwara Liberation Group     Omar Bolaji Gambari     College Of Arabic And Islamic Legal Studies     Mutawali Of Ilorin     Ronke Adeyemi     Lawyers Unite Against Corruption     Olaoye B. Felix     Erin-ile     Twitter     Offa Descendants Union     Ahmed Mohammed Rifun     Mahmud Durosinlohun Atiku     Gamji Members Association     Sheriff Shagaya     Alaiye     Ibrahim Abdulkadir Abikan     Abubakar B.M     Oke-Ogun     Kwara 2023     AbdulRazaq Jiddah     Towoju     Yusuf Zulu-Gambari     Kpotum Mohammed Baba     Maimunat Oniyangi     Hajj     TESCOM 2025     Clement Yomi Adeboye     Waheed Ibrahim     Yomi Ogunsola     Taibat Ayinke Ahmed     Christopher Odetunde     Muhammad Mustapha Suleiman     Yetunde Balogun     Matthew Babaoye     Mahmud Babatunde Baker     Ado Ibrahim     AbdulRauf Keji     Femi Oladiji     Harrison Osauwagboe     Oye Tinuoye     Saliu Ajia     Gbenga Olawepo     SDP     Isiaka Rafiu Mope     Sola Saraki Educational Foundation     Adaramaja     Oluwarotimi Boluwatife Adenike    

Cloud Tag: What's trending

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

Neo Mundo Ltd     Tafidan Kaiama     Bureau Of Lands     Wahab Abayawo     Adebayo Salami     Moses Afolayan     Bamidele Adegoke     Popo-Igbonna     Baba Adini Of Kwara State     Umar Saro     Katibi Ibraheem Adeola     Taiwo Joseph     Olugbense     Ebola     IF-K     Harrison Osauwagboe     Kayode Bankole     Kayode Ibrahim     Abdulganiyu Salahudeen     Abdulmumin Yinka Ajia     Abdullahi Adisa Akodudu     Offa Metropolitan Club     Oyedepo     Ayo Adeyemi     John Obuh     Saliu Oluwole     Undergraduate Bursary     Abdulwahab Ololele     Yaru     Jumoke F. Ajao     Azeez Bello     ER-KANG Mining Nigeria Company Limited     Mahmud Ajeigbe     Abdullahi Atanda     Folorunsho Alao     Ndakene     Ahmed     Kunbi Titiloye     Kayode Ishola     Olaiya Zuberu     Ajayi Okasanmi     Abdulmumini Jawondo     Oke Sunna     Olatomiwa Williams     Azeez Salawu     Budo-Egba     Otunba Taiwo Joseph     Muazam Nayaya     Maryam Ado Bayero     AbdulRazaq Jiddah     Alfa Modibo Belgore     Isau     Osinbajo     Local Government     Jebba     Ilorin Durbar     Ariyo     Medinat Folorunsho Salman     Quareeb Islamic Association     John Olobayo     Tosin Saraki     Solomon Edojah     Yusuf Badmus     Adebara     Shuaibu Yaman Abdullahi     JUSUN     Sa\'ad Alanamu     Binta Abubakar-Mora     Toyosi Thomas     Folashade Omoniyi     Arik     Bola Iyabo Ibiyeye Adisa     Femi Gbajabiamila     Federal College Of Education (Special), Afon     Abatemi-Usman     Oba Of Jebba     Wahab Femi Agbaje