Police arrest four for illegal mining in Borno
The Police Command in Borno State said it arrested four suspects for alleged illegal mining in the state.
The command’s Public Relations Officer, Nahun Daso, stated this in a statement on Thursday in Maiduguri.
He said that the suspects were arrested for being in possession of 70 bags of assorted solid minerals suspected to be monoxide.
Mr Daso said that the suspects were arrested on March 24, with one diesel tanker truck.
He said that they were apprehended by the troops of 331 Battalion in the Bayo Local Government Area of the state and handed over to the police.
The spokesman said that the suspects confessed to the crime, adding that the investigation was still ongoing.
He said that at the end of the investigation they would be charged to court.
Borno has many mineral resources which include feldspar, limestone and kaolin.
Others are potash, iron-ore, Quarts, magnetite, diatomite, trona, Mica, Silica Sand, Gypsum, granite, flutters earth and uranium among others.
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