{"id":59546,"date":"2022-08-31T19:24:24","date_gmt":"2022-08-31T19:24:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=59546"},"modified":"2022-08-31T19:24:24","modified_gmt":"2022-08-31T19:24:24","slug":"efcc-arrests-13-suspected-illegal-miners-in-ilorin-with-different-solid-minerals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=59546","title":{"rendered":"EFCC\u00a0 arrests 13 suspected \u00a0illegal miners In Ilorin with different solid minerals"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_59547\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-59547\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-59547\" src=\"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Ilorin-suspects.jfif_-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-59547\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The illegal miners<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Ilorin Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, \u00a0in collaboration with the Kwara State Command of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, NSCDC and the Federal\u00a0 Ministry of Mines and Steel Development have arrested thirteen (13) suspected illegal miners operating in Kakafu village in Pategi Local Government Area of Kwara State.<\/p>\n<p>The suspects are, Buba Mohammed, Yusuf Umar, Surajo Shehu, Abubakar Abdullahi, Salisu Mohammed, Quadri Sulaiman and Nwafor Chinonso.<\/p>\n<p>Others are: Abdullahi Isa, Mustapha Mohammed, Buhari Hassan, Basiru Jafaru, Murtala Jafaru and Jafaru Abdullahi.<\/p>\n<p>They \u00a0were arrested on Tuesday,\u00a0 August 30, 2022 in a joint operation, \u00a0\u00a0following \u00a0credible intelligence received by the EFCC on some suspected illegal miners operating in the area.<\/p>\n<p>Five (5) trucks fully loaded with different brands of \u00a0solid minerals were recovered from the suspects.<\/p>\n<p>Preliminary investigations showed that the suspects were not paying royalties to the Federal Government as required by law.<\/p>\n<p>They will soon be charged as soon as investigations are over.<\/p>\n<p><b>\u00a0\u25aa\ufe0e <\/b>By<b> Wilson Uwujaren,\u00a0<\/b>Head, Media &amp; Publicity, EFCC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ilorin Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, \u00a0in collaboration with the Kwara State Command of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, NSCDC and the Federal\u00a0 Ministry of Mines and Steel Development have arrested thirteen (13) suspected illegal miners operating in Kakafu village in Pategi Local Government Area of Kwara [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":59545,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59546","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=59546"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59546\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}