The National Economic Council
(NEC) has resolved that Nigeria Governors Forum (NGF) should constitute an ad
hoc committee to address the challenges confronting the mining sector.
Gov. Abudullahi Sule of Nasarawa
State briefed State House correspondents after the NEC meeting presided over by
Vice President Yemi Osinbajo on Thursday at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, NAN
reports.
Sule said that the council
received a memorandum from the Minister of Mines and Steel Development, which
intimated to the council the current relationship between the three tiers of
government in fiscal governance of the solid minerals sector.
He said the minister sought an
improved synergy between the three tiers of government in the sector and also
requested the council’s support in respect of the provisions of the
constitution and the Nigerian Mineral Mining Act.
The governor said that NEC was
further informed that the ministry had resuscitated the Presidential Mines
Surveillance Taskforce in all states of the federation with the responsibility
of curbing illegal mining and environmental degradation.
He said that the taskforce would
also plug the revenue leakages in addition to the institutionalising of
National Council on Mining and Mineral Resources Development.
“The resolutions of the council
are as follows: council resolved that there is a need for greater collaboration
between the Federal Ministry of Mines and Steel Development as well as the
various states.
“It was also resolved that
environmental issues and concerns in various states have to be sorted out by
the Federal Ministry of Mines and the various states.
“Regarding community
relationship, council resolved that there should be a full time engagement of
the communities to avoid mistakes made in the oil sector.
“In summary, the governor of
Ekiti State and Chairman of the Nigeria Governors Forum (NGF), should
constitute an ad hoc committee involving governors to engage with the Federal
Ministry of Mines and Steel to find ways of addressing all the issues involved
so that there will be fewer challenges especially in this particular
ministry,’’ he said.
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