“Of the 95 per cent small and artisan miners in the country, 90 per cent are resident in the North. If you can harness the potentials of these labour force, I think the so called Boko Haram insurgency will come to an end because by and large, the root cause of social vices is mostly economic problems – unemployment. If we can use the potentials of these youths in the North who are well versed in the art of mining, I think the issue of insurgency would be reduced to a minimal level. We have the figures to prove this because when tin mining began in Nigeria in 1903-1904 in Jos, the Northerners were the first miners before people from the south migrated to Jos to begin mining”. Ekosin
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