Edo North senator, Adams Oshiomhole, on Friday linked some retired military generals to illegal mining in Nigeria.
Oshiomhole, who is the chairman of Senate Committee on Interior, disclosed he once wrote to former President Muhammadu Buhari on the issue.
He disclosed this when the chairman of the Senate Committee on Solid Minerals Development, Senator Sampson Ekong, submitted his 2025 budget report before the Senate Committee on Appropriations.
The lawmaker said efforts to diversify Nigeria’s economy would remain a mirage if President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s administration failed to address the issue of illegal mining.
According to Oshiomhole: “The ongoing illegal mining across the country is being carried out by retired generals and we know them.
“Yes, we know them. Nobody in Africa doesn’t know them. I did a letter to former President Muhammadu Buhari on the matter when he was in office.
“This is because a team that I sent to go and conduct the primary somewhere, reported back to me the challenge of conducting primary elections in Zamfara because of the illegal miners.
“If we have to fight this menace, we need to deploy the Army even to kill anyone who is involved in illegal pumping of oil. We should also deploy JTFs, comprising the Army, Police, Air Force, against them.”
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