The Commander of the Mining Marshals, Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, John Onoja.
The Commander of the Mining Marshals, Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, John Onoja, has vowed to sustain operations aimed at dismantling illegal mining cartels and disrupting illicit financial flows linked to banditry, kidnapping and terrorism.
Onoja made this known on Thursday in Abuja during an interaction with journalists.
He said the mining marshals would remain uncompromising in enforcing mining laws and restoring sanity to the sector, which he said had increasingly assumed security dimensions.
According to him, illegal mining goes beyond economic and environmental concerns, as proceeds from illicit mining activities could provide funding for criminal and terrorist groups.
