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“We have arrested 150 illegal miners in Jos South, Bassa, Barkin-Ladi and Wase Local Government Areas of the State. These miners are illegally armed, from our investigation, some of them are criminals and we had gun battle with must of them before their arrested.

“As a country, we have the best tax holidays worldwide, all miners have three years tax holidays from the government. Again, out of the 40 minerals in the country, we have selected seven strategic ones for concentration. The minerals are limestone, barytes, iron, bitumen lead and zinc. We also have duty free on all mining equipment,” the minister said.

The governor explained that President Buhari has given the government’s commitment and the need to engage the ministers of finance, budget and national planning and the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to work out the technical details for the Ministry of Agriculture to make a presentation to the Federal Executive Council (FEC) and to the National Assembly for final approval.