In its ongoing clampdown on illegal mining activities, the Ilorin Zonal Directorate of the EFCC, has secured the conviction of a 50-year-old truck driver, Kasimu Bawa, from Wukari Local Government Area of Taraba State.
He was jailed for unlawful possession of solid minerals valued at N2.4million.
Bawa was sentenced to two years imprisonment by Justice Abimbola Awogboro of the Federal High Court, sitting in Ilorin, after he was found guilty of the charge preferred against him by the EFCC.
Recall that Bawa was the driver of a truck used in conveying minerals allegedly purchased without a licence by a Chinese national, Gang Deng, who was earlier convicted and sentenced to five years imprisonment on October 19, 2022 by the same court.
The convict was arrested by operatives of the Ilorin Zonal Directorate of the EFCC on September 9, 2022, at Share, along Tsaragi Road in Edu Local Government Area of Kwara State, while transporting 25 tons of suspected illegally mined minerals valued at N2.4 million. Visit efcc.efcc.gov.ng for more stories.