Dele Alake, minister of solid minerals, says the federal government will not back down from its efforts to curb illegal mining despite growing blackmail and smear campaigns.
Dele Alake, minister of solid minerals development, says the federal government will not back down from its efforts to curb illegal mining despite growing blackmail and smear campaigns.
“The challenges that I’ve seen, in a nutshell, are not administrative at all; they are external,” he said. “In fact, some came to say that the leader of the mine marshals is asking them for bribes and that they’ve paid him bribes,” he said.“One of them said he was coming back the following day with the evidence. That was six months ago. I’m yet to see him.”
He blamed the attacks on unethical elements within the media, saying, “like every profession in this degeneration, also in journalism, there’s no balancing of reportage.”
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