NSCDC Arrests 11 Suspects Over Ilegal Minning in Kwara

Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, NSCDC, Kwara state command on Wednesday said it arrested 11 suspects in connection with illegal mining activities at Share, in Ifelodun local government area of the state.

The suspects according to a statement by the command’s Public Relations Officer Olasunkanmi Ayeni,” were arrested with three big trucks fully loaded with raw materials suspected to be Lithium, illegally mined at Patigi.

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The statement read “The suspects were intercepted by our men at Share in Ifelodun LGA, kwara state, on their way to Ogun state”.

The command gave the names of the 11 suspects as; Kaka Azare (56), Muhammed Dan Azumi (30), Abdullahi Adamu (35), Abdullahi Muhammed (30), Suleiman Babayo (20), Muhammed Umar (15), Nasiru and Abubakar (18).

Others are Adam Muhammed (25) Alh Muhammed (25), Nasir Bello (25), and Ismail Garba (25).

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Ayeni said, “The command is working hard with other relevant agencies to curtail the activities of illegal miners within the state.

“Apart from the pact between the federal ministry of Mines and steel to help fight this menace, the executive governor of Kwara state, Mallam Abdulrahaman Abdulrasaq has also ordered the NSCDC Kwara command, to save the state from the illegal mining activities”.

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Olasunkanmi qouted the state commandant of the NSCDC Muhammed Tukur Ibrahim saying “all illegal minners to either follow the due process if they want to do the business or leave the state in their own interest because the Command will not hesitate to bring anyone that engages in illegal mining to book”.