About 9 suspected illegal miners were arrested by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) in Kaniyan village of Mokwa, Niger State, following involvement in illegal mining in the village.
This was contained in a statement issued by the commission on its verified X (formerly Twitter) handle on Tuesday, stating that the suspects include five Chinese and four Nigerians.
“The Chinese suspects are Wu Ping, Xu XianLiang, Xu Aimin, Xeu Cihuo, and Liu Changhua, while the Nigerians are Ibrahim Abdullahi, Sunday Oladele, Destiny John, and Bulus Samuel.”
“Items found in their possession upon their arrest include, one Stamford power generating set, one super quality power generating set, Inlong power generating set, three industrial crushing machines, three small industrial crushing machines, one Quangutaigaajing JIareshebei gold melting machine, four small dumper trucks, three pay loaders, three Elepaq water pumping machine, one Tacoma truck, one Lexus 470 SUV, three diesel rubber tanks, one Taiyo power generating set, one Senwei SP6800 small power generating set, one Laison 40000x power generating set, one welding machine (Bx1-400), one 25.2kg activated carbon chemical, four drilling machines and one kaishan KSCY-33018 power generating set”.
“Others are: one JMC power generating set, one Yuchai power generating set, one filing machine, four gas-powered power generating sets, one extractor, two big gas cylinders, one Honda pumping machine, one Super Zandaz water pumping machine, one Max Mec welding machine, two cartons of explosives, three caps for blasting stones, a white-coloured detection device, two small scales, two mining headgear/safety caps, a laptop computer and seven bottles of chemicals.”
“They will be charged in court as soon as investigations are concluded,” the commission’s statement reads further.
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