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The Minister of State, Federal Ministry of Mines and Steel Development, Uchechukwu Ogah, on Tuesday, in Abuja said that capital punishment against illegal miners is the potent way of stopping fleecing of nation’s resources in the mining and solid minerals sector.
Ogah, who spoke when he appeared before the Senate Committee on Solid Minerals, Mines, Steel Development and Metallurgy, to defend the ministry’s 2022 budget, maintained that this was invariably way of raking in the required revenues from the sector.
Acording to him, the ministry has projected N7.3billion as internally generated revenue, IGR for 2022 fiscal year.
The Committee Chaired by Tanko Al-Makura, a Senator representing Nasarawa South, however, tackled the minister on the projected revenue and the menace of illegal mining in the country.
