IPA BACKS GOV. MUTFWANG ON SUSPENSION OF MINING ACTIVITIES



The Independent Publishers Association, IPA, a group of Newspaper and Magazine publishers on the Plateau, is fully supporting Plateau State Governor, Barrister Caleb Mutfwang, on the suspension of illegal and indiscriminate mining activities in the state, and plea with the governor to synergize with the Federal Government on the matter to achieve the desired goals he enunciated recently to avoid constitutional crisis and rancour.

IPA Chairman, Shabul Mazadu called on the citizens of the state to objectively look into the reasons given by the governor on the suspension and to appreciate the fact that the decision is tailored towards stemming illegal mining, influx of merchants of insecurity who might hide under the guise of mining and unleash mayhem, child abuse through child labour, untimely deaths of miners in record numbers who are consistently buried alive in their burrows, encroachment of residential homes which can brew fisticuffs between residents and miners, cracking and collapsing of residential houses, school truancy by students and pupils who persistently visit mining sites, degrading of lands and making them unfit for cultivation and other agricultural purposes and devaluing them from being patronized for development and investments. 

Mazadu admonished those affected by the decision to look beyond the immediate financial benefits and consider the interest of the entire state now and in years to come, and support the legitimate mode of mining. And that the politicians should not politicize serious issue like this, because unless there is a secured state, there will be no politicking; adding that opposition is good, but shouldn't be at the detriment of the state. 

The IPA chairman further beseech the Federal Government not to see the act of the governor as usurping its power, but a necessity in accordance to achieving the primary aim of government which is securing lives and properties and the protection and promotion of the socio-economic wellbeing of the citizens. And to also see that curbing illegal mining, safeguarding lives, stemming influx of possible crisis merchants and criminals by the state government will add value to the Renewed Hope administration of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu which is so far trying in these areas. 

The chairman reiterated that if the lands are spared at the mercy of illegal artisanal miners, there will be food insecurity in the state in due course as the affected lands cannot be cultivated for food production and constructed for  industrialization infrastructures. 

Mazadu finally appeals to the government to have separate lands for mining and industrial sites, and calls on all citizens to support the initiative.

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