Agency reports
The Miners Association of Nigeria (MAN) says baning mining activities in the country
will be counterproductive and capable of worsening insecurity.
This is contained in a statement issued by Mr Dele Ayanleke, the National Secretary of MAN on Saturday in Abuja.
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Ayanleke said that placing a ban on mining activities due to insecurity in the country would further explode the labour market and enlarge the reserves for the recruitment of more bandits and criminals in the country.
The Federal Government says it is looking at the possibility of banning motorcycles and mining activities as a way of addressing the myriad of security challenges facing the country.
The MAN president said that the ban would ruin the Federal Government’s plan of diversifying the economy through the mining sector.
“Stigmatising an important economic hub such as mining industry and criminalising it as a scape-goat will be counterproductive and we have reasons for this assertion.
“At the inception of the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari included in the economic blueprint was an agenda to diversify the economy from Oil and Gas and broaden the economic space using mining and agriculture as pivots,” he said.
