The Anambra State government has apprehended and paraded ten suspected illegal miners who engaged in illegal sand mining activities in a government restricted area in Aguleri, Anambra east council of the state.
The suspects whose activities have threatened residents and the environments were apprehended by the enforcement team of Operation Clean and Healthy Anambra, OCHA Brigade and paraded at its headquarters in Awka.
Parading the suspects, the Managing Director of OCHA Brigade, Comrade Celestine Anere, revealed that the said area was sealed off months ago because of the illegal mining activities and dredging that have posed serious environmental dangers to the area and wondered why some individuals are bent on flouting the government order.
According to him, the suspects will be charged to court and warned that all the sites sealed must not be trespassed by anyone or group of people as ignorance is not an excuse to the law.
Comrade Anere explained that the ten kilometers radius of the restricted area is protected from any sand mining or excavation activities, bemoaning the losses the state has incurred from the activities of sand miners.
Comrade Anere vowed that illegal sand miners in any part of the state will not escape the long arms of the law as his office has been strengthened to arrest and prosecute anyone found engaging in the illegal activity.
The enforcement exercise continued with routine visits to identified mining sites in other parts of Anambra State.
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