In a show of solidarity, the Ministry of Defence will collaborate with the Ministry of Solid Minerals Development on securing mining fields across the country to make the sector realise its goal of contributing substantially to the gross domestic product and increasing revenue accruable to the coffers of the government.
On a courtesy visit, the Minister of Defence, Alhaji Mohammed Badaru, and his counterpart, Alhaji Bello Matawalle, Minister of State Defence, gave this assurance while answering questions from newsmen.
Alhaji Badaru said:” The purpose of the visit by the two of us is to discuss how we can provide security in the mining areas.
We are working to provide security on the farms, as well as security in the mining sector, to make the country earn the much-needed foreign currency. The mining sector is critical to helping rejuvenate the economy”.
Responding to the initiative of the Ministry of Solid Minerals Development to create a mining police, the Minister of Defence lauded the concept, assuring it would receive the necessary boost from the military.
He said, “We have to clear the territory as a military to ensure safety. When the mining police come, they can take it up from there and continue to provide security in those mining areas”.
In his comments, the Minister of Solid Minerals Development, Dr Oladele Alake, reaffirmed: ” The main essence is to secure our mineral sector. I have been saying it, even to foreign and local investors.
“That we need to secure our mineral sector so that the operators, both local and foreign, can have an open and unfettered atmosphere to operate so that we can derive maximum benefits from these God-given resources.”
“I have been saying that I am working in conjunction with the Ministry of Defence; inter-military agencies are involved in all the security architecture that we are reinvigorating.”
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