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FG Seals Off Illegal Mining Firm in Ogun

POSTED ON July 11, 2024 •   Metro      BY Benedicta Bassey •   VIEWS 111
Illegal Mining site/ Photo credit: Guardian

The Federal Government has sealed off a sand dredging and mining company, operating in Ilate-Etido community of Obafemi/Owode Local Government Area in Ogun State over illegal mining activities.

The company, operating under the name of Ojibas Nigeria Limited and owned by a businessman from Osun State, was sealed off by officers from the Mining Inspectorate Department, Federal Ministry of Solid Minerals and Development, Oke Mosan, Abeokuta, Ogun State.

It was gathered that the operating licence of the company dredging sand in the community had been revoked by the Nigeria Mining Cadastral Office, Abuja, since August 12, 2022.

But despite the revocation of the mining licence which was published in the official gazette of NMCO, Abuja, the company continued to carry on illegal mining activities, using policemen and soldiers as security cover.

Meanwhile, a combined team of soldiers from the 35 Artillery Brigade, Alamala, Abeokuta and police operatives from Zone 2 Command of the Nigeria Police Force, Onikan, Lagos, had on May 28, 2024, stormed the company and arrested the suspected illegal miners at a dredging site.

The security team also arrested some policemen and soldiers providing cover for the illegal miners headed by a Chinese national and whisked them to Onikan for interrogations.

Speaking on the closure of the mining company, the Community Head of Ilate-Etido community, Chief Shamsideen Ajibawo said: “I wrote a series of letters to the Federal Ministry of Solid Minerals, Cadastral Mining Office, Office of the Inspector-General of Police, Chief of Naval Staff and Ministry of Mines in Ogun State over the activities of these illegal miners.

“I also discovered when I went to Abuja that the company’s operating licence had been revoked, but the promoter of the company refused to leave the community, boasting that he had acquired all the land in Ilate-Etido and that the indigenes should vacate the land for him. 

"The whole community was however thrown into jubilation as the combined soldiers from the 35 Artillery Brigade, Alamala, Abeokuta and police operatives from the Zone 2 Police Command, Onikan, came to arrest the illegal miners and armed police they used to intimidate my people.”

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