20th August, 2023
By Muhammad Lawal
Governor Nasir Idris has pledged to revive mining activities in order to woo investors to Kebbi State.
Alhaji Ahmed Idris, Chief Press Secretary (CPS) to the Governor, disclosed this in a statement on Sunday.
The CPS reported his principal as saying this while inspecting mining sites at Warrah and Birnin Yauri in Ngaski and Yauri local government areas of the state.
Idris said that the tour was part of efforts to revive mining activities in the various areas, apart from diversifying the revenue base of the state.
He noted with satisfaction that Kebbi State had multiple sources of revenue aside from farming, yet it remained one of the major and giant contributors to national food security.
Meanwhile, he assured that his government was ready to support mining activities in all ramifications, to make them more formal, more attractive, and more interesting to miners and potential investors.
His words: “The present administration is ready to holistically revive mining activities in the state to attract investors and also boost the internally generated revenue of the state.
“I want to use this medium to charge the youth engaged in the mining activities to be law-abiding and to ensure that any newcomer to the area is identified by community leaders to avoid any criminal tendencies.”
Conducting the governor round the area, the Chairman, Ngaski Local Government, Alhaji Abdullahi Buhari-Warrah, said mining had been going on in the areas for a very long time but that some miners had abandoned the business.
The chairman expressed delight that the new administration under Kauran Gwandu was ready to revive and formalise business in the areas.
Buhari-Warrah assured the governor that the council was ready to extend all the necessary support to the “gigantic efforts to diversify the state’s IGR”.
The governor’s entourage comprised the Secretary to the State Government (SSG), Alhaji Yakubu Bala-Tafida; the Commissioner of Finance, Alhaji Abubakar Chika; and the Commissioner of Solid Minerals and Mine Development, Haliru Mohammed-Wasagu.
NAN