Minister of Information, Alhaji Lai Muhammed has revealed that illegal miners are catering for the crisis in Zamfara state by making arms available for bandits.
Speaking recently on NTA, he shared that business increases for the illegal miners when the environment is not peaceful and very hostile, so the miners are doing all they can to make the state ungovernable.
His words, “People begin to ask what is the nexus between instability in Zamfara, kidnapping and banditry and illegal mining,”
“There is a lot. For instance, if you are doing illegal mining, abinitio, it is illegal. The more unsettled the area is, the better for you.
“We find out that a lot of ammunition and money were being turned out to the bandits so as to make the area ungovernable. The higher the rate of the crisis, the better for the illegal miners.
“We have a harvest of criminals many of them arrested, their actions neutralized and cache of ammunition recovered.
“On the April 14, they neutralised 11 kidnappers, recovered six AK47, 1200 rounds of ammunition.
“Shortly after that, they were able to arrest those who kidnapped the Channels Television correspondent.”
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