Commander of the NSCDC Mining Marshals, Attah Onoja, (m), at the House of Representatives complex. Photo: NSCDC
The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps has said its Mining Marshals have arrested 671 suspected illegal miners across the country.
According to a statement issued on Tuesday, the Commander of the NSCDC Mining Marshals, Attah Onoja, said 397 of the suspects had already been arraigned before the Federal High Court in Abuja.
Onoja disclosed this on Monday in Abuja while representing the Commandant-General of the Corps, Prof. Ahmed Audi, at a stakeholders’ workshop on extractive industries governance organised by the House of Representatives Ad Hoc Committee on Mineral Exploitation, Security and Anti-Money Laundering.
He said the Mining Marshals had dismantled several illegal mining sites, shut down unlawful operations, confiscated mining equipment and restored a number of mining sites to their legitimate licence holders.
