Impounds three trailer loads of suspected illegally mined marble
The Kwara state police command today announced the arrest of a group of illegal miners operating in some parts of the state.
According to a release to this effect, dated 3/11/22 and signed by the PPRO, the State police commissioner, CP Paul Odama psc (+) acted on petitions sent to him by “residents and natives of Patigi in Patigi Local Government Area of Kwara state and the Association of Licensed Miners of Kwara state”.
The petitioners raised alarm in their petitions that “illegal miners have turned their ancestral lands to a beehive of illegal Mining of mineral resources, there by causing ecological problems and sabotage to the economy of both the state and federal governments.”
The dispatched team of the command’s operatives on the 30th October 2022 made the arrests of the illegal miners in possession of the suspected illegally mined resources along Share, Tsaragi and Patigi areas of the state.
Details of the arrest according to the release revealed three impounded trailers loaded with “suspected marbles illegally mined.”
The arrested suspects include: “Abdulbagi Sadiq ‘m’ aged 28yrs with a Trailer with registration number SGM 222 ZR; Isah Amisu ‘m’ aged 28yrs with a Trailer with registration number GBE 347ZE; Mohammed Zanihat Idris aged 27yrs ‘m’ with a Trailer with registration number BWR 151 YL, Alhassan Rabiu ‘m’, Mohammed Abdulbagi ‘m’, Ibrahim Sule Balarabe ‘m’ Mohammed Dalhatu Idris and Abubakar Tasiu.”
The suspects after interrogations and confessions have been charged to court.
Meanwhile, the state Police Commissioner has called on the law abiding people of Kwara state to join hands with the police to rid the state of all forms of Criminalities.
