Global Warming: How illegal miners wreak havoc in Taraba -Taskforce Boss
By Kator Terseer, Jalingo
The Taraba State Special Taskforce Committee Chairman on Suspension of Mining and Deforestation Activities, Retired General Jeremiah Faransa on Wednesday said that the activities of illegal miners have cause a lot of havoc, ushering in global warming and climate change in the State.
Faransa stated this while briefing Newsmen in Jalingo, where he said that, the activities of miners have stated manifesting by the long draught experienced in August this year.
He stressed that if measures are not properly taken, Taraba State would experience desert encroachment more than Borno State.
General Faransa also disclosed that the global warming is right here at the nose and the need to send packing the illegal miners.
He stated that numerous arrests have been made since the coming on board of Taraba special taskforce, even as he said all miners in Taraba State are defaulters.
“We have gone round the mining sites in the 16 local government areas of the State, and I want to State categorically that the level of destruction done in this state can never be imagine, the State has been destroyed by the illegal miners.
“We arrested so many people including foreigners with expired visa within the State.
“Taraba State has over 22 forest reserves but on the very sad note, all those forest reserves have been destroyed, some of them have been turned to farmlands, some turned to mining sites”, he said.
