Presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu has revealed his plans to wipe out activities of illegal mining in the country if elected.
Tinubu said this at a strategic town hall on mining and security in Lafia, the Nasarawa state capital on Thursday.
Tinubu promised to confront and conquer all challenges facing the mining sector as it understands how much of an economic prosperity such sector holds to grow the country’s GDP.
“I promise you, we will dismantle all bottlenecks, all blockades, illegal mining, and exploitation that doesn’t bring profit to Nigeria. I promise you, we will have an accelerated economic development programme to make you alive, and your children benefit from the prosperity that is coming to you,” the former Lagos State governor said.
It’s about stability, development, justice, and fairness, and it’s about freedom. It doesn’t give us the freedom of insults and abuse. It gives us the freedom to focus on the immediate problems confronting our people to find solutions to them, conquer the problem, and bring joy and happiness to the people. And that is what we are here to do.”
“Mining has the potential to become a critical part of the industrial development promised in our Renewed Hope Manifesto. We will do what is necessary to secure the future for Nigeria through more investments, enabling legislation, and systems that will enable the mining sector to thrive,” he said.