The Kwara State Police Command has arrested eight suspected illegal miners and recovered three trailer loads of marble stones in the Patigi Local Government Area of the state.
The Spokesperson for the Command, SP. Okasanmi Ajayi, disclosed this in a statement on Thursday in Ilorin.
According to him, the residents of Patigi LGA and the Association of Licensed Miners of Kwara State had complained that illegal miners had turned their ancestral lands into a beehive of illegal mining of mineral resources. “The police team swung into action and on October 10 at about 2pm, the suspects were arrested with three trailer loads of suspected marbles illegally mined.
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