The Minister of Solid Minerals Development, Dele Alake, cautioned state governors who have imposed bans on mining activities within their states.
He emphasized that no state governor possesses the rightful authority to meddle with mining operations within their states for any reason.
“Mining belongs exclusively in the purview of the federal government, according to the Constitution. It is in the exclusive legislative list. It is not in the residual. It is not in the concurrent it’s in the exclusive legislative list. Every item on the exclusive, legislative list belongs to the federal government.
“But for a State to wake up and say it is regulating mining activities is like a state waking up to ban oil exploration. It is downright illegal. Alake added that any case of infringement by miners in a state should be reported to the mines officers in the states or to the Ministry instead of states making improper pronouncements that are not enforceable.
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