The Kwara State Government has commenced investigations into the activities of middlemen posing as state agents to collect revenues at mining sites without remitting the funds to the government.
The Commissioner for Solid Minerals Development, Afeez Abolore Alabi, disclosed this during an inter-ministerial briefing in Ilorin on Monday. He lamented the role of these intermediaries in exacerbating the illegal mining crisis in the state.
“Our attention was recently brought to this…
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