EFCC vows crackdown on sponsors of illegal mining
- ✦Olukoyede also linked illegal mining to Nigeria’s security challenges, warning that unregulated mineral extraction and trading created opportunities for criminal networks to engage in extortion, smuggling, violence and territorial disputes.
- Photo: File The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has vowed to intensify its crackdown on illegal mining by targeting financiers, mineral buyers, compromised public officials and other members of criminal networks benefiting from the theft of Nigeria’s mineral resources.
- The EFCC Chairman, Ola Olukoyede, said illegal mining was sustained by sophisticated syndicates involving local and international players, warning that arresting miners at excavation sites alone would not address the problem.
- Olukoyede also linked illegal mining to Nigeria’s security challenges, warning that unregulated mineral extraction and trading created opportunities for criminal networks to engage in extortion, smuggling, violence and territorial disputes.
The EFCC has vowed to intensify its crackdown on illegal mining by targeting financiers, mineral buyers, and compromised public officials benefiting from i
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Photo: File The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has vowed to intensify its crackdown on illegal mining by targeting financiers, mineral buyers, compromised public officials and other members of criminal networks benefiting from the theft of Nigeria’s mineral resources.
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The primary parties identified in this coverage include Nigeria Customs Service, Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Kwara State.
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Olukoyede spoke on Tuesday while delivering a keynote address at a public lecture and capacity-building workshop organised by the Michael Imoudu National Institute for Labour Studies and the Human and Environmental Development Agenda in Ilorin, Kwara State.
