Insecurity crippling mining activities In Niger – MAN chairman warns

The Chairman of the Miners Association of Nigeria, MAN, Niger State chapter, Abdulazeez Yusuf Mohammed, has warned that escalating insecurity is crippling mining activities crossed the state.

Mohammed urged Governor Mohammed Umar Bago to question the deployment of further information unit to safeguard mining sites earlier the assemblage suffers a full collapse.

The MAN president made the entreaty portion speaking with journalists successful Minna, saying worsening insecurity has forced galore morganatic miners to wantonness mining sites arsenic equipped attacks go much frequent.

He said respective mining communities crossed Niger State person turned into unsafe flashpoints wherever miners and geologists hazard their lives carrying retired exploration and mining activities.

According to him, continued attacks by equipped gunmen could importantly trim gross accruing to some the Niger State and Federal Governments from the mining sector.

The State MAN president lamented that the activities of the equipped groups are gradually bringing the exploration and exploitation of gold, lithium and different coagulated minerals to a standstill, noting that astir of the state’s mineral deposits are located successful forests affected by recurring banditry.

“It has go much oregon little a termination ngo for miners, geologists and different professionals to participate the forests successful hunt of mineral deposits,” helium said.

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