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NSCDC nabs 27 illegal miners
A total number of 27 illegal miners in Imo, Plateau, Sokoto, Kaduna and Niger states have been arrested by officers of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC).
According to Emmanuel Okeh, the Public Relations Officer (PRO) of the corps, the suspects were arrested between January and May 2018.
He said some of the suspected illegal miners had been charged to court and also revealed that 10 of the suspects were from Imo, five from Plateau, six from Sokoto, three from Kaduna and three from Niger, adding that the persons arrested in Plateau were Chinese.
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“The people caught in Niger had been sentenced to seven-year imprisonment,” he said.
Oke also noted that some illegal miners were spotted in the act in Kogi and Bwari area of Abuja, but fled the scene before the personnel of the agency could get to them.
“The miners were not arrested but we impounded their equipment, such as excavator that was abandoned as they fled the scene. “We confiscated the equipment as exhibit,” he said.
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