Determined to curb the spate of insecurity in the state, the Kebbi State Government has suspended all mining activities, directing all the security agencies in the state to ensure strict compliance with immediate effect.
The Secretary to the State Government (SSG), Alhaji Yakubu Bala, who announced government’s decision during a press conference on Friday in his office, explained that the recent heightened security challenges in the local sites across the state and other concerns such as lack of verifiable evidence of corporate social responsibilities, and total absence of accruable revenue prompted the state government to take the action.
He said: “In the light of recent heightened security challenges in the localities of mining sites across the state and other concerns such as lack of verifiable evidence of corporate social responsibilities on the part of Miners, the total absence of accruable revenue in the names of Ecological tax and development levy for State and Local Government respectively, that significant number of Miners do not posses requisite permit by the Federal Ministry of Mines and Solid Minerals and observable environmental impact.
