The Federal Government has sealed a sand dredging and mining company, operating in the Ilate-Etido Community in Obafemi/Owode local government area of Ogun State, over illegal mining activities.The company, operating under the name of Ojibas Nigeria Limited and owned by a businessman from Osun State, was sealed on Tuesday by officers from the Mining Inspectorate Department, Federal Ministry of Solid Minerals and Development, Oke Mosan, Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital.
It was also gathered that despite the revocation of the mining license which was published in the official gazette of NMCO, Abuja, the company continued to carry on illegal mining activities, using policemen and soldiers as security covers. Scores of residents of the host community had before then staged a protest against the company, lamenting the negative and destructive impacts of the illegal dredging of sand in the area, which according to them, had affected their farmlands, environment and sources of living.
He said the community will now experience a huge relief with the sealing action, adding that the mining company, apart from engaging in unauthorized activities, had caused serious environmental degradation to the Ilate-Etido community.“I personally wrote a series of letters to the Federal Ministry of Solid Minerals, Cadastral Mining office, Office of the General of Police, Chief of Naval Staff and Ministry of Mines, Ogun State over the activities of these illegal miners.
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