Be alert, responsive to mining challenges, opportunities, Makinde tells chairmen

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By Rotimi Agboluaje, Ibadan

09 June 2024   |   3:20 americium

Oyo State Governor, Seyi Makinde, has mandated the 33 recently elected section assembly chairmen to instrumentality work for the challenges and opportunities successful the mining assemblage wrong their jurisdiction.

Oyo State politician Seyi Makinde

Oyo State Governor, Seyi Makinde, has mandated the 33 recently elected section assembly chairmen to instrumentality work for the challenges and opportunities successful the mining assemblage wrong their jurisdiction.
 
The politician spoke done the Director-General, Oyo State Mineral Development Agency and Executive Chairman of the Pacesetter Mineral Development Company, Mr. Abiodun Oni, during a gathering astatine the agency’s office, successful Ibadan.
 


Makinde emphasised the value of harnessing the state’s mineral resources for the payment of the citizens, stating that operations successful the assemblage indispensable not person adverse effect connected the information of lives and property.  

Noting that the mining assemblage is nether the exclusive jurisdiction of the Federal Government, helium said states and section councils person a captious relation to play successful ensuring that mining operations are conducted securely with the consent of big communities.

He charged the assembly chairmen to guarantee that miners get the indispensable consent letters and assemblage improvement agreements earlier commencing operations.
 
The manager wide emphasised that the superior work of the authorities is to support beingness and property, crushed assembly chairmen indispensable instrumentality this work seriously, arsenic mining operations tin sometimes beryllium accompanied by information risks.

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