Minister for Environment, Science, and Technology, Ibrahim Murtala Muhammed, has expressed the government's commitment to win the fight against illegal small scale mining (Galamsey).
He assured that measures have been put in place to stop galamsey. "There's no denying the fact that politicians are engaged in galamsey… It's shocking to note that as of 2022, the state had taken a decision to withdraw security forces who were preventing people from engaging in galamsey in all galamsey areas. "No [rethoric], we want to do less talking and much work.
I can tell you what we're doing is profound.
Some of the things I can't put out there.
